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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	Montenegro	Liberia
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	623	2,741
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	623	2,847
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	623	2,917
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	622	2,978
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	621	2,983
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	621	3,005
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	621	3,138
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	620	3,311
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	620	3,469
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	621	3,603
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	622	3,708
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	623	3,817
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	622	3,984
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	622	4,141
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	622	4,244
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	621	4,348
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	620	4,460
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	618	4,576
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	616	4,689
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	614	4,810
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	613	4,904
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	612	5,005
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	611	5,109
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	610	5,216

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.

Montenegro

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

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.