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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	Singapore	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,959	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	274	4,028	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,138	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,176	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	278	4,115	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	279	4,167	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	280	4,266	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	281	4,401	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	282	4,589	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	283	4,839	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	285	4,988	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	286	5,077	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	287	5,184	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	288	5,312	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	289	5,399	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	290	5,470	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	291	5,535	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	291	5,607	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	292	5,612	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	293	5,639	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	294	5,704	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	294	5,686	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	295	5,716	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	295	5,750	38,685

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

Singapore

1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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; the database as a whole is cited above.