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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	Mauritania	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	81,439	2,437	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	81,474	2,501	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	81,534	2,566	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	81,595	2,632	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	81,566	2,699	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	81,473	2,768	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	81,354	2,838	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	81,190	2,909	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	81,009	2,981	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	80,781	3,055	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	80,500	3,129	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	80,301	3,205	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	80,292	3,282	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	80,443	3,359	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	80,663	3,438	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	81,000	3,517	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	81,704	3,597	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	82,366	3,677	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	82,674	3,759	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	82,923	3,840	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	83,110	3,942	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	83,178	4,045	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	83,213	4,150	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	83,811	4,259	10,200

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.

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

No separate list is published for Mauritania; the database as a whole is cited above.