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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 CanadaCambodiaBosnia & Herzegovina
30,51012,1223,811
30,79612,3173,901
31,13212,5043,919
31,47312,6913,923
31,75812,8813,940
32,05513,0763,975
32,36013,2763,991
32,68813,4613,993
33,00713,6303,990
33,36713,8083,987
33,75013,9903,985
34,12714,1623,983
34,46314,3223,980
34,83914,4803,977
35,20914,6373,973
35,56514,7933,968
35,83114,9943,963
36,23915,2383,957
36,67715,4803,951
37,19815,7173,944
37,73615,9443,937
38,17416,1493,929
38,38316,3383,921
38,68516,5143,876

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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