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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 CanadaOmanArmenia
30,5102,3482,970
30,7962,4032,966
31,1322,4572,965
31,4732,5102,962
31,7582,5622,955
32,0552,6132,953
32,3602,6632,951
32,6882,7132,948
33,0072,7642,946
33,3672,8162,943
33,7502,8712,941
34,1272,9282,939
34,4632,9862,937
34,8393,0472,934
35,2093,1102,932
35,5653,1742,928
35,8313,2402,924
36,2393,3072,919
36,6773,3752,913
37,1983,4442,907
37,7363,5122,899
38,1743,5822,891
38,3833,6512,881
38,6853,6962,871

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 Oman, Armenia; the database as a whole is cited above.