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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	Estonia	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	81,439	1,378	273
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	81,474	1,400	274
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	81,534	1,391	275
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	81,595	1,382	276
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	81,566	1,374	278
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	81,473	1,365	279
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	81,354	1,357	280
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	81,190	1,349	281
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	81,009	1,341	282
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	80,781	1,337	283
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	80,500	1,334	285
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	80,301	1,332	286
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	80,292	1,328	287
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	80,443	1,324	288
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	80,663	1,319	289
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	81,000	1,314	290
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	81,704	1,312	291
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	82,366	1,314	291
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	82,674	1,314	292
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	82,923	1,318	293
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	83,110	1,323	294
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	83,178	1,327	294
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	83,213	1,329	295
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	83,811	1,330	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.

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 Estonia, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.