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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 BarbadosMontenegroCongo - KinshasaCanada
27362351,18130,510
27462352,78230,796
27562354,45331,132
27662256,17031,473
27862157,86031,758
27962159,59932,055
28062161,47432,360
28162063,47932,688
28262065,59033,007
28362167,80033,367
28562270,11433,750
28662372,55034,127
28762275,13834,463
28862277,79234,839
28962280,53435,209
29062183,36835,565
29162086,22935,831
29161889,19336,239
29261692,20936,677
29361495,23237,198
29461398,32037,736
294612101,49938,174
295611104,76738,383
295610108,17138,685

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

Montenegro

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

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, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.