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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 BarbadosCanadaOmanParaguay
27330,5102,3485,366
27430,7962,4035,473
27531,1322,4575,579
27631,4732,5105,683
27831,7582,5625,786
27932,0552,6135,886
28032,3602,6635,984
28132,6882,7136,080
28233,0072,7646,173
28333,3672,8166,264
28533,7502,8716,352
28634,1272,9286,438
28734,4632,9866,522
28834,8393,0476,605
28935,2093,1106,688
29035,5653,1746,769
29135,8313,2406,850
29136,2393,3076,930
29236,6773,3757,012
29337,1983,4447,095
29437,7363,5127,179
29438,1743,5827,263
29538,3833,6517,348
29538,6853,6967,432

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, Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.