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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Belgium	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	10,227	273
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	10,252	274
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	10,288	275
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	10,334	276
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	10,377	278
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	10,422	279
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	10,480	280
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	10,549	281
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	10,627	282
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	10,711	283
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	10,797	285
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	10,897	286
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	11,039	287
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	11,108	288
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	11,160	289
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	11,210	290
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	11,275	291
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	11,332	291
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	11,376	292
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	11,429	293
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	11,491	294
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	11,546	294
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	11,594	295
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	11,695	295

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.

Belgium

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.