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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	Hungary
Dec 31, 1999	273	30,510	4,244	10,244
Dec 31, 2000	274	30,796	4,199	10,218
Dec 31, 2001	275	31,132	4,154	10,194
Dec 31, 2002	276	31,473	4,108	10,165
Dec 31, 2003	278	31,758	4,059	10,136
Dec 31, 2004	279	32,055	4,013	10,114
Dec 31, 2005	280	32,360	3,966	10,094
Dec 31, 2006	281	32,688	3,919	10,078
Dec 31, 2007	282	33,007	3,873	10,062
Dec 31, 2008	283	33,367	3,829	10,045
Dec 31, 2009	285	33,750	3,788	10,029
Dec 31, 2010	286	34,127	3,748	10,007
Dec 31, 2011	287	34,463	3,709	9,978
Dec 31, 2012	288	34,839	3,671	9,927
Dec 31, 2013	289	35,209	3,633	9,900
Dec 31, 2014	290	35,565	3,595	9,873
Dec 31, 2015	291	35,831	3,558	9,850
Dec 31, 2016	291	36,239	3,522	9,821
Dec 31, 2017	292	36,677	3,485	9,794
Dec 31, 2018	293	37,198	3,448	9,782
Dec 31, 2019	294	37,736	3,412	9,778
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,174	3,376	9,757
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,383	3,339	9,716
Dec 31, 2022	295	38,685	3,570	9,690

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.

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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