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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	Seychelles	Canada	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	273	78	30,510	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	274	79	30,796	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	275	80	31,132	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	276	81	31,473	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	278	82	31,758	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	279	83	32,055	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	280	84	32,360	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	281	85	32,688	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	282	86	33,007	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	283	87	33,367	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	285	87	33,750	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	286	88	34,127	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	287	89	34,463	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	288	90	34,839	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	289	91	35,209	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	290	92	35,565	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	291	92	35,831	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	291	93	36,239	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	292	94	36,677	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	293	95	37,198	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	294	96	37,736	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	294	97	38,174	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	295	98	38,383	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	295	98	38,685	7,666

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