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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 CanadaLaosCape Verde
30,5105,286422
30,7965,397430
31,1325,499438
31,4735,578447
31,7585,654455
32,0555,746463
32,3605,836471
32,6885,931478
33,0076,035486
33,3676,145494
33,7506,257501
34,1276,368509
34,4636,477516
34,8396,586524
35,2096,695531
35,5656,804539
35,8316,912546
36,2397,019553
36,6777,127562
37,1987,234568
37,7367,343574
38,1747,452580
38,3837,560585
38,6857,666590

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 Laos, Cape Verde; the database as a whole is cited above.