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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	Romania	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	273	30,510	22,414	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	274	30,796	22,262	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	275	31,132	22,106	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	276	31,473	21,931	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	278	31,758	21,828	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	279	32,055	21,704	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	280	32,360	21,571	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	281	32,688	21,443	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	282	33,007	21,129	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	283	33,367	20,779	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	285	33,750	20,607	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	286	34,127	20,485	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	287	34,463	20,385	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	288	34,839	20,296	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	289	35,209	20,224	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	290	35,565	20,151	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	291	35,831	20,055	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	291	36,239	19,938	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	292	36,677	19,823	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	293	37,198	19,713	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	294	37,736	19,622	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,174	19,496	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,383	19,351	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	295	38,685	19,266	124,762

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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