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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	Germany	Brazil	Spain
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	81,439	174,320	40,378
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	81,474	176,902	40,563
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	81,534	179,389	40,775
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	81,595	181,721	41,433
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	81,566	183,970	42,205
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	81,473	186,165	42,869
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	81,354	188,330	43,672
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	81,190	190,438	44,370
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	81,009	192,450	45,246
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	80,781	194,458	45,993
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	80,500	196,464	46,378
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	80,301	198,408	46,573
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	80,292	200,152	46,746
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	80,443	201,894	46,777
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	80,663	203,614	46,603
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	81,000	205,358	46,465
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	81,704	207,148	46,420
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	82,366	208,859	46,460
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	82,674	210,537	46,543
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	82,923	212,258	46,739
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	83,110	213,940	47,116
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	83,178	215,577	47,366
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	83,213	216,720	47,342
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	83,811	217,718	47,625

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.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

Brazil

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

Spain

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
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)