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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	Dominica	Canada	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	273	70	30,510	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	274	71	30,796	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	275	71	31,132	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	276	72	31,473	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	278	72	31,758	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	279	72	32,055	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	280	72	32,360	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	281	72	32,688	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	282	72	33,007	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	283	73	33,367	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	285	73	33,750	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	286	73	34,127	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	287	73	34,463	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	288	73	34,839	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	289	73	35,209	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	290	73	35,565	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	291	74	35,831	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	291	74	36,239	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	292	74	36,677	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	293	74	37,198	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	294	75	37,736	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	294	75	38,174	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	295	76	38,383	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	295	76	38,685	146,693

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.

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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