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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	United States
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	81,439	4,463	279,040
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	81,474	4,492	282,162
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	81,534	4,515	284,969
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	81,595	4,539	287,625
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	81,566	4,566	290,108
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	81,473	4,593	292,805
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	81,354	4,624	295,517
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	81,190	4,662	298,380
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	81,009	4,710	301,231
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	80,781	4,769	304,094
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	80,500	4,830	306,772
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	80,301	4,890	309,327
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	80,292	4,954	311,583
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	80,443	5,020	313,878
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	80,663	5,081	316,060
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	81,000	5,138	318,386
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	81,704	5,191	320,739
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	82,366	5,237	323,072
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	82,674	5,278	325,122
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	82,923	5,313	326,838
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	83,110	5,349	328,330
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	83,178	5,380	331,512
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	83,213	5,409	332,032
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	83,811	5,458	333,288

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: 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)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).