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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 BarbadosHondurasCanadaEstonia
2736,19830,5101,378
2746,36730,7961,400
2756,53531,1321,391
2766,69831,4731,382
2786,86331,7581,374
2797,02832,0551,365
2807,19432,3601,357
2817,35932,6881,349
2827,52233,0071,341
2837,68233,3671,337
2857,83933,7501,334
2867,99134,1271,332
2878,14134,4631,328
2888,28834,8391,324
2898,42935,2091,319
2908,54635,5651,314
2918,66135,8311,312
2918,77036,2391,314
2928,87836,6771,314
2939,00237,1981,318
2949,15437,7361,323
2949,30438,1741,327
2959,44838,3831,329
2959,59038,6851,330

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, Honduras, Estonia; the database as a whole is cited above.