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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	South Africa	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	46,257	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	46,958	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	47,820	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	48,480	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	48,951	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	49,478	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	50,054	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	50,667	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	51,339	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	52,077	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	52,862	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	53,682	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	54,518	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	55,356	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	56,215	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	57,075	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	57,947	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	58,830	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	59,715	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	60,595	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	61,469	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	62,355	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	62,900	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	63,382	38,685

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.

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

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; the database as a whole is cited above.