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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 CanadaOmanMontenegro
30,5102,348623
30,7962,403623
31,1322,457623
31,4732,510622
31,7582,562621
32,0552,613621
32,3602,663621
32,6882,713620
33,0072,764620
33,3672,816621
33,7502,871622
34,1272,928623
34,4632,986622
34,8393,047622
35,2093,110622
35,5653,174621
35,8313,240620
36,2393,307618
36,6773,375616
37,1983,444614
37,7363,512613
38,1743,582612
38,3833,651611
38,6853,696610

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

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