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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 BarbadosSeychellesSudanCanada
2737826,16830,510
2747926,77130,796
2758027,38731,132
2768128,01731,473
2788228,66231,758
2798329,32132,055
2808429,99632,360
2818530,68632,688
2828631,39333,007
2838732,13733,367
2858733,07833,750
2868833,89134,127
2878934,56834,463
2889035,29334,839
2899136,09335,209
2909237,05835,565
2919238,16535,831
2919339,29436,239
2929440,51236,677
2939541,76437,198
2949642,95237,736
2949744,12138,174
2959845,29038,383
2959846,49838,685

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

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