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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	Canada	Burkina Faso	North Macedonia	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	11,075	2,006	273
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	11,405	2,017	274
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	11,828	2,026	275
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	12,380	2,011	276
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	12,829	2,018	278
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	13,178	2,024	279
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	13,540	2,028	280
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	13,917	2,031	281
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	14,309	2,035	282
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	14,722	2,038	283
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	15,152	2,042	285
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	15,600	2,046	286
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	16,064	2,049	287
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	16,563	2,052	288
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	17,072	2,055	289
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	17,575	2,058	290
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	18,094	2,061	291
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	18,621	2,063	291
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	19,157	2,065	292
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	19,698	2,067	293
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	20,242	2,068	294
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	20,788	2,065	294
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	21,336	2,057	295
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	21,889	2,048	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.

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

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.

North Macedonia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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