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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	Nigeria
Dec 31, 1999	273	30,510	22,414	121,649
Dec 31, 2000	274	30,796	22,262	125,014
Dec 31, 2001	275	31,132	22,106	128,513
Dec 31, 2002	276	31,473	21,931	132,165
Dec 31, 2003	278	31,758	21,828	135,971
Dec 31, 2004	279	32,055	21,704	139,900
Dec 31, 2005	280	32,360	21,571	143,914
Dec 31, 2006	281	32,688	21,443	148,019
Dec 31, 2007	282	33,007	21,129	152,195
Dec 31, 2008	283	33,367	20,779	156,434
Dec 31, 2009	285	33,750	20,607	160,751
Dec 31, 2010	286	34,127	20,485	165,142
Dec 31, 2011	287	34,463	20,385	169,607
Dec 31, 2012	288	34,839	20,296	174,142
Dec 31, 2013	289	35,209	20,224	178,737
Dec 31, 2014	290	35,565	20,151	183,362
Dec 31, 2015	291	35,831	20,055	187,979
Dec 31, 2016	291	36,239	19,938	192,594
Dec 31, 2017	292	36,677	19,823	197,417
Dec 31, 2018	293	37,198	19,713	202,498
Dec 31, 2019	294	37,736	19,622	207,699
Dec 31, 2020	294	38,174	19,496	213,021
Dec 31, 2021	295	38,383	19,351	218,473
Dec 31, 2022	295	38,685	19,266	223,735

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.

Nigeria

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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