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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date CanadaAzerbaijanYemen
30,5108,05616,728
30,7968,12717,236
31,1328,19417,762
31,4738,25718,310
31,7588,31918,855
32,0558,39119,410
32,3608,47520,000
32,6888,56520,611
33,0078,65721,236
33,3678,75021,878
33,7508,84222,533
34,1278,93323,195
34,4639,02523,880
34,8399,11724,594
35,2099,21025,311
35,5659,30226,020
35,8319,39326,698
36,2399,48127,347
36,6779,56727,985
37,1989,64928,608
37,7369,72729,216
38,1749,80229,811
38,3839,87430,399
38,6859,91831,058

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