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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	Denmark	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	81,439	5,322	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	81,474	5,339	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	81,534	5,358	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	81,595	5,377	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	81,566	5,391	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	81,473	5,404	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	81,354	5,420	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	81,190	5,438	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	81,009	5,461	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	80,781	5,494	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	80,500	5,524	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	80,301	5,548	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	80,292	5,571	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	80,443	5,592	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	80,663	5,614	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	81,000	5,644	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	81,704	5,683	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	82,366	5,730	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	82,674	5,766	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	82,923	5,795	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	83,110	5,818	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	83,178	5,831	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	83,213	5,855	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	83,811	5,907	46,498

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.

No separate list is published for Denmark, Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.