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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	Laos	Canada	Comoros
Dec 31, 1999	273	5,286	30,510	531
Dec 31, 2000	274	5,397	30,796	545
Dec 31, 2001	275	5,499	31,132	559
Dec 31, 2002	276	5,578	31,473	574
Dec 31, 2003	278	5,654	31,758	590
Dec 31, 2004	279	5,746	32,055	606
Dec 31, 2005	280	5,836	32,360	623
Dec 31, 2006	281	5,931	32,688	640
Dec 31, 2007	282	6,035	33,007	657
Dec 31, 2008	283	6,145	33,367	674
Dec 31, 2009	285	6,257	33,750	690
Dec 31, 2010	286	6,368	34,127	706
Dec 31, 2011	287	6,477	34,463	722
Dec 31, 2012	288	6,586	34,839	737
Dec 31, 2013	289	6,695	35,209	752
Dec 31, 2014	290	6,804	35,565	767
Dec 31, 2015	291	6,912	35,831	781
Dec 31, 2016	291	7,019	36,239	795
Dec 31, 2017	292	7,127	36,677	808
Dec 31, 2018	293	7,234	37,198	821
Dec 31, 2019	294	7,343	37,736	837
Dec 31, 2020	294	7,452	38,174	853
Dec 31, 2021	295	7,560	38,383	869
Dec 31, 2022	295	7,666	38,685	885

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, Laos, Comoros; the database as a whole is cited above.