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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	Ecuador	São Tomé & Príncipe
Dec 31, 1999	273	30,510	12,268	138
Dec 31, 2000	274	30,796	12,446	141
Dec 31, 2001	275	31,132	12,629	144
Dec 31, 2002	276	31,473	12,827	147
Dec 31, 2003	278	31,758	13,074	151
Dec 31, 2004	279	32,055	13,368	154
Dec 31, 2005	280	32,360	13,661	158
Dec 31, 2006	281	32,688	13,915	161
Dec 31, 2007	282	33,007	14,133	165
Dec 31, 2008	283	33,367	14,352	168
Dec 31, 2009	285	33,750	14,569	172
Dec 31, 2010	286	34,127	14,786	176
Dec 31, 2011	287	34,463	15,002	180
Dec 31, 2012	288	34,839	15,218	183
Dec 31, 2013	289	35,209	15,433	187
Dec 31, 2014	290	35,565	15,647	190
Dec 31, 2015	291	35,831	15,860	194
Dec 31, 2016	291	36,239	16,072	198
Dec 31, 2017	292	36,677	16,282	201
Dec 31, 2018	293	37,198	16,489	204
Dec 31, 2019	294	37,736	16,693	208
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,174	16,894	212
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,383	17,093	216
Dec 31, 2022	295	38,685	17,288	220

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.

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

No separate list is published for Barbados, São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.