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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 BarbadosCanadaOmanAzerbaijan
27330,5102,3488,056
27430,7962,4038,127
27531,1322,4578,194
27631,4732,5108,257
27831,7582,5628,319
27932,0552,6138,391
28032,3602,6638,475
28132,6882,7138,565
28233,0072,7648,657
28333,3672,8168,750
28533,7502,8718,842
28634,1272,9288,933
28734,4632,9869,025
28834,8393,0479,117
28935,2093,1109,210
29035,5653,1749,302
29135,8313,2409,393
29136,2393,3079,481
29236,6773,3759,567
29337,1983,4449,649
29437,7363,5129,727
29438,1743,5829,802
29538,3833,6519,874
29538,6853,6969,918

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, Oman, Azerbaijan; the database as a whole is cited above.