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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 FasoUzbekistan
27330,51011,07524,701
27430,79611,40525,042
27531,13211,82825,372
27631,47312,38025,696
27831,75812,82925,992
27932,05513,17826,268
28032,36013,54026,540
28132,68813,91726,812
28233,00714,30927,081
28333,36714,72227,347
28533,75015,15227,609
28634,12715,60027,869
28734,46316,06428,132
28834,83916,56328,398
28935,20917,07228,666
29035,56517,57528,934
29135,83118,09429,205
29136,23918,62129,480
29236,67719,15729,756
29337,19819,69830,031
29437,73620,24230,305
29438,17420,78830,576
29538,38321,33630,843
29538,68521,88931,337

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, Uzbekistan; the database as a whole is cited above.