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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	Moldova	Canada	Slovenia
Dec 31, 1999	273	4,244	30,510	1,998
Dec 31, 2000	274	4,199	30,796	2,004
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,154	31,132	2,006
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,108	31,473	2,009
Dec 31, 2003	278	4,059	31,758	2,010
Dec 31, 2004	279	4,013	32,055	2,011
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,966	32,360	2,015
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,919	32,688	2,022
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,873	33,007	2,033
Dec 31, 2008	283	3,829	33,367	2,036
Dec 31, 2009	285	3,788	33,750	2,056
Dec 31, 2010	286	3,748	34,127	2,063
Dec 31, 2011	287	3,709	34,463	2,067
Dec 31, 2012	288	3,671	34,839	2,071
Dec 31, 2013	289	3,633	35,209	2,074
Dec 31, 2014	290	3,595	35,565	2,076
Dec 31, 2015	291	3,558	35,831	2,078
Dec 31, 2016	291	3,522	36,239	2,079
Dec 31, 2017	292	3,485	36,677	2,081
Dec 31, 2018	293	3,448	37,198	2,087
Dec 31, 2019	294	3,412	37,736	2,104
Dec 31, 2020	294	3,376	38,174	2,118
Dec 31, 2021	295	3,339	38,383	2,123
Dec 31, 2022	295	3,570	38,685	2,124

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.

Slovenia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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