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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	Iceland	Canada	India
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	30,510	1,000,965
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	30,796	1,018,667
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	31,132	1,036,256
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	31,473	1,053,663
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	31,758	1,070,882
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	32,055	1,087,941
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	32,360	1,104,803
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	32,688	1,121,354
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	33,007	1,137,576
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	33,367	1,153,547
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	33,750	1,169,239
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	34,127	1,184,638
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	34,463	1,199,810
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	34,839	1,214,839
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	35,209	1,229,765
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	35,565	1,244,577
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	35,831	1,259,236
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	36,239	1,273,693
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	36,677	1,287,902
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	37,198	1,301,821
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	37,736	1,315,530
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	38,174	1,329,062
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	38,383	1,339,912
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	38,685	1,349,060

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

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.

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.

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

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