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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosCanadaBurkina FasoSenegal
27330,51011,07510,070
27430,79611,40510,305
27531,13211,82810,576
27631,47312,38010,864
27831,75812,82911,172
27932,05513,17811,498
28032,36013,54011,839
28132,68813,91712,204
28233,00714,30912,584
28333,36714,72212,978
28533,75015,15213,382
28634,12715,60013,794
28734,46316,06414,226
28834,83916,56314,668
28935,20917,07215,121
29035,56517,57515,589
29135,83118,09416,066
29136,23918,62116,549
29236,67719,15717,044
29337,19819,69817,535
29437,73620,24218,021
29438,17420,78818,518
29538,38321,33619,016
29538,68521,88919,512

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.

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