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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 BarbadosSeychellesYemenCanada
2737816,72830,510
2747917,23630,796
2758017,76231,132
2768118,31031,473
2788218,85531,758
2798319,41032,055
2808420,00032,360
2818520,61132,688
2828621,23633,007
2838721,87833,367
2858722,53333,750
2868823,19534,127
2878923,88034,463
2889024,59434,839
2899125,31135,209
2909226,02035,565
2919226,69835,831
2919327,34736,239
2929427,98536,677
2939528,60837,198
2949629,21637,736
2949729,81138,174
2959830,39938,383
2959831,05838,685

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