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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 CanadaEstoniaCongo - Kinshasa
30,5101,37851,181
30,7961,40052,782
31,1321,39154,453
31,4731,38256,170
31,7581,37457,860
32,0551,36559,599
32,3601,35761,474
32,6881,34963,479
33,0071,34165,590
33,3671,33767,800
33,7501,33470,114
34,1271,33272,550
34,4631,32875,138
34,8391,32477,792
35,2091,31980,534
35,5651,31483,368
35,8311,31286,229
36,2391,31489,193
36,6771,31492,209
37,1981,31895,232
37,7361,32398,320
38,1741,327101,499
38,3831,329104,767
38,6851,330108,171

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 Estonia, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.