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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 FasoTogo
30,51011,0754,852
30,79611,4054,992
31,13211,8285,135
31,47312,3805,278
31,75812,8295,425
32,05513,1785,578
32,36013,5405,715
32,68813,9175,865
33,00714,3096,042
33,36714,7226,220
33,75015,1526,405
34,12715,6006,587
34,46316,0646,772
34,83916,5636,961
35,20917,0727,154
35,56517,5757,351
35,83118,0947,552
36,23918,6217,757
36,67719,1577,965
37,19819,6988,176
37,73620,2428,376
38,17420,7888,579
38,38321,3368,784
38,68521,8898,991

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, Togo; the database as a whole is cited above.