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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	India
Dec 31, 1999	273	30,510	11,075	1,000,965
Dec 31, 2000	274	30,796	11,405	1,018,667
Dec 31, 2001	275	31,132	11,828	1,036,256
Dec 31, 2002	276	31,473	12,380	1,053,663
Dec 31, 2003	278	31,758	12,829	1,070,882
Dec 31, 2004	279	32,055	13,178	1,087,941
Dec 31, 2005	280	32,360	13,540	1,104,803
Dec 31, 2006	281	32,688	13,917	1,121,354
Dec 31, 2007	282	33,007	14,309	1,137,576
Dec 31, 2008	283	33,367	14,722	1,153,547
Dec 31, 2009	285	33,750	15,152	1,169,239
Dec 31, 2010	286	34,127	15,600	1,184,638
Dec 31, 2011	287	34,463	16,064	1,199,810
Dec 31, 2012	288	34,839	16,563	1,214,839
Dec 31, 2013	289	35,209	17,072	1,229,765
Dec 31, 2014	290	35,565	17,575	1,244,577
Dec 31, 2015	291	35,831	18,094	1,259,236
Dec 31, 2016	291	36,239	18,621	1,273,693
Dec 31, 2017	292	36,677	19,157	1,287,902
Dec 31, 2018	293	37,198	19,698	1,301,821
Dec 31, 2019	294	37,736	20,242	1,315,530
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,174	20,788	1,329,062
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,383	21,336	1,339,912
Dec 31, 2022	295	38,685	21,889	1,349,060

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.

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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