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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Hungary	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	10,244	273
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	10,218	274
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	10,194	275
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	10,165	276
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	10,136	278
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	10,114	279
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	10,094	280
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	10,078	281
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	10,062	282
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	10,045	283
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	10,029	285
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	10,007	286
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	9,978	287
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	9,927	288
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	9,900	289
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	9,873	290
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	9,850	291
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	9,821	291
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	9,794	292
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	9,782	293
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	9,778	294
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	9,757	294
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	9,716	295
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	9,690	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.

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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