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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 CanadaCongo - KinshasaAlbania
30,51051,1813,085
30,79652,7823,065
31,13254,4533,047
31,47356,1703,038
31,75857,8603,026
32,05559,5993,014
32,36061,4742,998
32,68863,4792,979
33,00765,5902,957
33,36767,8002,934
33,75070,1142,915
34,12772,5502,900
34,46375,1382,892
34,83977,7922,888
35,20980,5342,882
35,56583,3682,876
35,83186,2292,868
36,23989,1932,863
36,67792,2092,861
37,19895,2322,854
37,73698,3202,842
38,174101,4992,825
38,383104,7672,799
38,685108,1712,787

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.