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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	Moldova	Argentina
Dec 31, 1999	273	30,510	4,244	36,924
Dec 31, 2000	274	30,796	4,199	37,336
Dec 31, 2001	275	31,132	4,154	37,714
Dec 31, 2002	276	31,473	4,108	38,079
Dec 31, 2003	278	31,758	4,059	38,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	32,055	4,013	38,800
Dec 31, 2005	280	32,360	3,966	39,171
Dec 31, 2006	281	32,688	3,919	39,556
Dec 31, 2007	282	33,007	3,873	39,947
Dec 31, 2008	283	33,367	3,829	40,343
Dec 31, 2009	285	33,750	3,788	40,736
Dec 31, 2010	286	34,127	3,748	41,401
Dec 31, 2011	287	34,463	3,709	41,881
Dec 31, 2012	288	34,839	3,671	42,360
Dec 31, 2013	289	35,209	3,633	42,836
Dec 31, 2014	290	35,565	3,595	43,310
Dec 31, 2015	291	35,831	3,558	43,779
Dec 31, 2016	291	36,239	3,522	44,245
Dec 31, 2017	292	36,677	3,485	44,706
Dec 31, 2018	293	37,198	3,448	45,162
Dec 31, 2019	294	37,736	3,412	45,613
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,174	3,376	46,058
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,383	3,339	46,496
Dec 31, 2022	295	38,685	3,570	46,736

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.

Argentina

1800 - 1870: 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)
1870 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.

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