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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 BarbadosCanadaOmanSudan
27330,5102,34826,168
27430,7962,40326,771
27531,1322,45727,387
27631,4732,51028,017
27831,7582,56228,662
27932,0552,61329,321
28032,3602,66329,996
28132,6882,71330,686
28233,0072,76431,393
28333,3672,81632,137
28533,7502,87133,078
28634,1272,92833,891
28734,4632,98634,568
28834,8393,04735,293
28935,2093,11036,093
29035,5653,17437,058
29135,8313,24038,165
29136,2393,30739,294
29236,6773,37540,512
29337,1983,44441,764
29437,7363,51242,952
29438,1743,58244,121
29538,3833,65145,290
29538,6853,69646,498

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