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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	Iceland	Burkina Faso	Cape Verde
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	277	11,075	422
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	281	11,405	430
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	285	11,828	438
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	288	12,380	447
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	289	12,829	455
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	293	13,178	463
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	296	13,540	471
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	304	13,917	478
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	311	14,309	486
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	319	14,722	494
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	319	15,152	501
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	318	15,600	509
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	319	16,064	516
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	321	16,563	524
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	324	17,072	531
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	327	17,575	539
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	331	18,094	546
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	335	18,621	553
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	343	19,157	562
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	353	19,698	568
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	361	20,242	574
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	366	20,788	580
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	372	21,336	585
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	380	21,889	590

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.

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

No separate list is published for Burkina Faso, Cape Verde; the database as a whole is cited above.