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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date CanadaDenmarkTrinidad & Tobago
30,5105,3221,301
30,7965,3391,303
31,1325,3581,308
31,4735,3771,314
31,7585,3911,320
32,0555,4041,326
32,3605,4201,332
32,6885,4381,338
33,0075,4611,344
33,3675,4941,352
33,7505,5241,359
34,1275,5481,365
34,4635,5711,372
34,8395,5921,379
35,2095,6141,386
35,5655,6441,392
35,8315,6831,399
36,2395,7301,405
36,6775,7661,411
37,1985,7951,436
37,7365,8181,452
38,1745,8311,448
38,3835,8551,450
38,6855,9071,456

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.

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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.

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