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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 BarbadosCanadaOmanVietnam
27330,5102,34878,394
27430,7962,40379,472
27531,1322,45780,546
27631,4732,51081,637
27831,7582,56282,720
27932,0552,61383,821
28032,3602,66384,942
28132,6882,71386,036
28233,0072,76487,136
28333,3672,81688,253
28533,7502,87189,373
28634,1272,92890,481
28734,4632,98691,591
28834,8393,04792,720
28935,2093,11093,883
29035,5653,17495,055
29135,8313,24096,222
29136,2393,30797,380
29236,6773,37598,507
29337,1983,44499,604
29437,7363,512100,695
29438,1743,582101,771
29538,3833,651102,815
29538,6853,696103,574

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