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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	North Macedonia	Canada	Estonia
Dec 31, 1999	273	2,006	30,510	1,378
Dec 31, 2000	274	2,017	30,796	1,400
Dec 31, 2001	275	2,026	31,132	1,391
Dec 31, 2002	276	2,011	31,473	1,382
Dec 31, 2003	278	2,018	31,758	1,374
Dec 31, 2004	279	2,024	32,055	1,365
Dec 31, 2005	280	2,028	32,360	1,357
Dec 31, 2006	281	2,031	32,688	1,349
Dec 31, 2007	282	2,035	33,007	1,341
Dec 31, 2008	283	2,038	33,367	1,337
Dec 31, 2009	285	2,042	33,750	1,334
Dec 31, 2010	286	2,046	34,127	1,332
Dec 31, 2011	287	2,049	34,463	1,328
Dec 31, 2012	288	2,052	34,839	1,324
Dec 31, 2013	289	2,055	35,209	1,319
Dec 31, 2014	290	2,058	35,565	1,314
Dec 31, 2015	291	2,061	35,831	1,312
Dec 31, 2016	291	2,063	36,239	1,314
Dec 31, 2017	292	2,065	36,677	1,314
Dec 31, 2018	293	2,067	37,198	1,318
Dec 31, 2019	294	2,068	37,736	1,323
Dec 31, 2020	294	2,065	38,174	1,327
Dec 31, 2021	295	2,057	38,383	1,329
Dec 31, 2022	295	2,048	38,685	1,330

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

North Macedonia

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, Estonia; the database as a whole is cited above.