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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	Serbia
Dec 31, 1999	273	30,510	2,348	7,611
Dec 31, 2000	274	30,796	2,403	7,587
Dec 31, 2001	275	31,132	2,457	7,574
Dec 31, 2002	276	31,473	2,510	7,570
Dec 31, 2003	278	31,758	2,562	7,551
Dec 31, 2004	279	32,055	2,613	7,533
Dec 31, 2005	280	32,360	2,663	7,510
Dec 31, 2006	281	32,688	2,713	7,481
Dec 31, 2007	282	33,007	2,764	7,451
Dec 31, 2008	283	33,367	2,816	7,419
Dec 31, 2009	285	33,750	2,871	7,389
Dec 31, 2010	286	34,127	2,928	7,360
Dec 31, 2011	287	34,463	2,986	7,304
Dec 31, 2012	288	34,839	3,047	7,269
Dec 31, 2013	289	35,209	3,110	7,234
Dec 31, 2014	290	35,565	3,174	7,199
Dec 31, 2015	291	35,831	3,240	7,162
Dec 31, 2016	291	36,239	3,307	7,124
Dec 31, 2017	292	36,677	3,375	7,087
Dec 31, 2018	293	37,198	3,444	7,048
Dec 31, 2019	294	37,736	3,512	7,010
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,174	3,582	6,964
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,383	3,651	6,898
Dec 31, 2022	295	38,685	3,696	6,833

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.

Serbia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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