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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 BarbadosSeychellesCanadaYemen
2737830,51016,728
2747930,79617,236
2758031,13217,762
2768131,47318,310
2788231,75818,855
2798332,05519,410
2808432,36020,000
2818532,68820,611
2828633,00721,236
2838733,36721,878
2858733,75022,533
2868834,12723,195
2878934,46323,880
2889034,83924,594
2899135,20925,311
2909235,56526,020
2919235,83126,698
2919336,23927,347
2929436,67727,985
2939537,19828,608
2949637,73629,216
2949738,17429,811
2959838,38330,399
2959838,68531,058

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