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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	Benin	Canada	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	6,461	30,510	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	6,677	30,796	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	6,902	31,132	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	7,130	31,473	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	7,360	31,758	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	7,589	32,055	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	7,838	32,360	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	8,089	32,688	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	8,335	33,007	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	8,603	33,367	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	8,884	33,750	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	9,179	34,127	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	9,486	34,463	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	9,805	34,839	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	10,135	35,209	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	10,480	35,565	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	10,842	35,831	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	11,220	36,239	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	11,613	36,677	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	12,018	37,198	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	12,370	37,736	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	12,725	38,174	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	13,081	38,383	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	13,439	38,685	2,787

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.

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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 Benin, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.