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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	Oman	Cuba
Dec 31, 1999	273	30,510	2,348	11,108
Dec 31, 2000	274	30,796	2,403	11,147
Dec 31, 2001	275	31,132	2,457	11,179
Dec 31, 2002	276	31,473	2,510	11,210
Dec 31, 2003	278	31,758	2,562	11,241
Dec 31, 2004	279	32,055	2,613	11,260
Dec 31, 2005	280	32,360	2,663	11,268
Dec 31, 2006	281	32,688	2,713	11,266
Dec 31, 2007	282	33,007	2,764	11,261
Dec 31, 2008	283	33,367	2,816	11,258
Dec 31, 2009	285	33,750	2,871	11,260
Dec 31, 2010	286	34,127	2,928	11,262
Dec 31, 2011	287	34,463	2,986	11,264
Dec 31, 2012	288	34,839	3,047	11,262
Dec 31, 2013	289	35,209	3,110	11,250
Dec 31, 2014	290	35,565	3,174	11,238
Dec 31, 2015	291	35,831	3,240	11,214
Dec 31, 2016	291	36,239	3,307	11,180
Dec 31, 2017	292	36,677	3,375	11,147
Dec 31, 2018	293	37,198	3,444	11,116
Dec 31, 2019	294	37,736	3,512	11,105
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,174	3,582	11,089
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,383	3,651	11,046
Dec 31, 2022	295	38,685	3,696	11,003

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.

Cuba

1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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