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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	Congo - Kinshasa	South Africa
Dec 31, 1999	273	30,510	51,181	46,257
Dec 31, 2000	274	30,796	52,782	46,958
Dec 31, 2001	275	31,132	54,453	47,820
Dec 31, 2002	276	31,473	56,170	48,480
Dec 31, 2003	278	31,758	57,860	48,951
Dec 31, 2004	279	32,055	59,599	49,478
Dec 31, 2005	280	32,360	61,474	50,054
Dec 31, 2006	281	32,688	63,479	50,667
Dec 31, 2007	282	33,007	65,590	51,339
Dec 31, 2008	283	33,367	67,800	52,077
Dec 31, 2009	285	33,750	70,114	52,862
Dec 31, 2010	286	34,127	72,550	53,682
Dec 31, 2011	287	34,463	75,138	54,518
Dec 31, 2012	288	34,839	77,792	55,356
Dec 31, 2013	289	35,209	80,534	56,215
Dec 31, 2014	290	35,565	83,368	57,075
Dec 31, 2015	291	35,831	86,229	57,947
Dec 31, 2016	291	36,239	89,193	58,830
Dec 31, 2017	292	36,677	92,209	59,715
Dec 31, 2018	293	37,198	95,232	60,595
Dec 31, 2019	294	37,736	98,320	61,469
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,174	101,499	62,355
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,383	104,767	62,900
Dec 31, 2022	295	38,685	108,171	63,382

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.

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

No separate list is published for Barbados, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.