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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Canada	Burkina Faso	Australia
Dec 31, 1999	273	30,510	11,075	18,692
Dec 31, 2000	274	30,796	11,405	18,907
Dec 31, 2001	275	31,132	11,828	19,151
Dec 31, 2002	276	31,473	12,380	19,371
Dec 31, 2003	278	31,758	12,829	19,595
Dec 31, 2004	279	32,055	13,178	19,805
Dec 31, 2005	280	32,360	13,540	20,048
Dec 31, 2006	281	32,688	13,917	20,320
Dec 31, 2007	282	33,007	14,309	20,694
Dec 31, 2008	283	33,367	14,722	21,113
Dec 31, 2009	285	33,750	15,152	21,553
Dec 31, 2010	286	34,127	15,600	21,891
Dec 31, 2011	287	34,463	16,064	22,197
Dec 31, 2012	288	34,839	16,563	22,588
Dec 31, 2013	289	35,209	17,072	22,980
Dec 31, 2014	290	35,565	17,575	23,326
Dec 31, 2015	291	35,831	18,094	23,664
Dec 31, 2016	291	36,239	18,621	24,036
Dec 31, 2017	292	36,677	19,157	24,445
Dec 31, 2018	293	37,198	19,698	24,823
Dec 31, 2019	294	37,736	20,242	25,204
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,174	20,788	25,529
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,383	21,336	25,574
Dec 31, 2022	295	38,685	21,889	25,826

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

All data sources

Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Canada

1820-1850: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1851-70: O.J. Firestone, "Canada's Changing Economy in the Second Half of the 19th Century", NBER, New York, 1957, processed, amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870)
1870-1926: M.C. Urquart and Associates, ed., Gross National Product, Canada 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993, pp. 11-12 and 24-5,
1926-1950: Statistics Canada, National Income and Expenditure Accounts, vol. 1, The Annual Estimates 1926-1974, Ottawa, 1975, p. 323. 1960 onwards from OECD, National Accounts.

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

No separate list is published for Barbados, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.