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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	Estonia	Canada	Iceland
Dec 31, 1999	273	1,378	30,510	277
Dec 31, 2000	274	1,400	30,796	281
Dec 31, 2001	275	1,391	31,132	285
Dec 31, 2002	276	1,382	31,473	288
Dec 31, 2003	278	1,374	31,758	289
Dec 31, 2004	279	1,365	32,055	293
Dec 31, 2005	280	1,357	32,360	296
Dec 31, 2006	281	1,349	32,688	304
Dec 31, 2007	282	1,341	33,007	311
Dec 31, 2008	283	1,337	33,367	319
Dec 31, 2009	285	1,334	33,750	319
Dec 31, 2010	286	1,332	34,127	318
Dec 31, 2011	287	1,328	34,463	319
Dec 31, 2012	288	1,324	34,839	321
Dec 31, 2013	289	1,319	35,209	324
Dec 31, 2014	290	1,314	35,565	327
Dec 31, 2015	291	1,312	35,831	331
Dec 31, 2016	291	1,314	36,239	335
Dec 31, 2017	292	1,314	36,677	343
Dec 31, 2018	293	1,318	37,198	353
Dec 31, 2019	294	1,323	37,736	361
Dec 31, 2020	294	1,327	38,174	366
Dec 31, 2021	295	1,329	38,383	372
Dec 31, 2022	295	1,330	38,685	380

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.

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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