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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	France
Dec 31, 1999	273	30,510	11,075	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	274	30,796	11,405	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	275	31,132	11,828	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	276	31,473	12,380	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	278	31,758	12,829	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	279	32,055	13,178	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	280	32,360	13,540	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	281	32,688	13,917	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	282	33,007	14,309	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	283	33,367	14,722	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	285	33,750	15,152	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	286	34,127	15,600	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	287	34,463	16,064	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	288	34,839	16,563	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	289	35,209	17,072	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	290	35,565	17,575	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	291	35,831	18,094	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	291	36,239	18,621	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	292	36,677	19,157	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	293	37,198	19,698	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	294	37,736	20,242	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,174	20,788	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,383	21,336	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	295	38,685	21,889	68,387

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.

France

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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