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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 BarbadosDominicaCanadaAlbania
2737030,5103,085
2747130,7963,065
2757131,1323,047
2767231,4733,038
2787231,7583,026
2797232,0553,014
2807232,3602,998
2817232,6882,979
2827233,0072,957
2837333,3672,934
2857333,7502,915
2867334,1272,900
2877334,4632,892
2887334,8392,888
2897335,2092,882
2907335,5652,876
2917435,8312,868
2917436,2392,863
2927436,6772,861
2937437,1982,854
2947537,7362,842
2947538,1742,825
2957638,3832,799
2957638,6852,787

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, Dominica, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.