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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 BarbadosUkraineOmanCanada
27349,4912,34830,510
27449,0142,40330,796
27548,5202,45731,132
27648,0742,51031,473
27847,6922,56231,758
27947,3422,61332,055
28047,0032,66332,360
28146,6852,71332,688
28246,4072,76433,007
28346,1562,81633,367
28545,9512,87133,750
28645,7682,92834,127
28745,6042,98634,463
28845,4923,04734,839
28945,3893,11035,209
29044,9443,17435,565
29144,4293,24035,831
29144,2083,30736,239
29244,0293,37536,677
29343,9443,44437,198
29443,9513,51237,736
29443,9043,58238,174
29543,7463,65138,383
29539,8973,69638,685

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, Ukraine, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.