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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	South Africa	Canada	Oman
Dec 31, 1999	273	46,257	30,510	2,348
Dec 31, 2000	274	46,958	30,796	2,403
Dec 31, 2001	275	47,820	31,132	2,457
Dec 31, 2002	276	48,480	31,473	2,510
Dec 31, 2003	278	48,951	31,758	2,562
Dec 31, 2004	279	49,478	32,055	2,613
Dec 31, 2005	280	50,054	32,360	2,663
Dec 31, 2006	281	50,667	32,688	2,713
Dec 31, 2007	282	51,339	33,007	2,764
Dec 31, 2008	283	52,077	33,367	2,816
Dec 31, 2009	285	52,862	33,750	2,871
Dec 31, 2010	286	53,682	34,127	2,928
Dec 31, 2011	287	54,518	34,463	2,986
Dec 31, 2012	288	55,356	34,839	3,047
Dec 31, 2013	289	56,215	35,209	3,110
Dec 31, 2014	290	57,075	35,565	3,174
Dec 31, 2015	291	57,947	35,831	3,240
Dec 31, 2016	291	58,830	36,239	3,307
Dec 31, 2017	292	59,715	36,677	3,375
Dec 31, 2018	293	60,595	37,198	3,444
Dec 31, 2019	294	61,469	37,736	3,512
Dec 31, 2020	294	62,355	38,174	3,582
Dec 31, 2021	295	62,900	38,383	3,651
Dec 31, 2022	295	63,382	38,685	3,696

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

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

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