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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	France	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	60,396	273
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	60,811	274
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	61,255	275
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	61,703	276
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	62,141	278
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	62,600	279
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	63,073	280
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	63,513	281
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	63,906	282
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	64,264	283
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	64,594	285
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	64,913	286
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	65,231	287
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	65,552	288
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	65,891	289
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	66,212	290
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	66,480	291
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	66,730	291
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	67,015	292
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	67,347	293
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	67,660	294
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	67,901	294
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	68,114	295
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	68,387	295

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.

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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