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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	Norway	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	81,439	4,463	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	81,474	4,492	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	81,534	4,515	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	81,595	4,539	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	81,566	4,566	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	81,473	4,593	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	81,354	4,624	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	81,190	4,662	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	81,009	4,710	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	80,781	4,769	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	80,500	4,830	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	80,301	4,890	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	80,292	4,954	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	80,443	5,020	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	80,663	5,081	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	81,000	5,138	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	81,704	5,191	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	82,366	5,237	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	82,674	5,278	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	82,923	5,313	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	83,110	5,349	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	83,178	5,380	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	83,213	5,409	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	83,811	5,458	4,713

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.

Norway

1820–1930: Grytten, O.H. (2015). Norwegian gross domestic product by industry 1830 - 1930, Norges Bank Working paper 19/2015. Population from Maddison (2006)
1930-1950: Central Bureau of Statistics Norway, 1970 and Maddison, A. Monintoring the World Economy, 1995

Lebanon

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828