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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosCongo - KinshasaCanadaUzbekistan
27351,18130,51024,701
27452,78230,79625,042
27554,45331,13225,372
27656,17031,47325,696
27857,86031,75825,992
27959,59932,05526,268
28061,47432,36026,540
28163,47932,68826,812
28265,59033,00727,081
28367,80033,36727,347
28570,11433,75027,609
28672,55034,12727,869
28775,13834,46328,132
28877,79234,83928,398
28980,53435,20928,666
29083,36835,56528,934
29186,22935,83129,205
29189,19336,23929,480
29292,20936,67729,756
29395,23237,19830,031
29498,32037,73630,305
294101,49938,17430,576
295104,76738,38330,843
295108,17138,68531,337

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, Congo - Kinshasa, Uzbekistan; the database as a whole is cited above.