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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 CanadaBurkina FasoBurundi
30,51011,0756,128
30,79611,4056,282
31,13211,8286,466
31,47312,3806,670
31,75812,8296,897
32,05513,1787,167
32,36013,5407,439
32,68813,9177,709
33,00714,3097,991
33,36714,7228,318
33,75015,1528,741
34,12715,6009,140
34,46316,0649,440
34,83916,5639,748
35,20917,07210,069
35,56517,57510,380
35,83118,09410,577
36,23918,62110,721
36,67719,15710,955
37,19819,69811,229
37,73620,24211,602
38,17420,78811,987
38,38321,33612,384
38,68521,88912,795

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 Burkina Faso, Burundi; the database as a whole is cited above.