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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date CanadaOmanParaguayLuxembourg
30,5102,3485,366433
30,7962,4035,473438
31,1322,4575,579443
31,4732,5105,683448
31,7582,5625,786454
32,0552,6135,886460
32,3602,6635,984467
32,6882,7136,080474
33,0072,7646,173482
33,3672,8166,264491
33,7502,8716,352500
34,1272,9286,438509
34,4632,9866,522521
34,8393,0476,605533
35,2093,1106,688547
35,5653,1746,769560
35,8313,2406,850571
36,2393,3076,930586
36,6773,3757,012599
37,1983,4447,095610
37,7363,5127,179623
38,1743,5827,263633
38,3833,6517,348643
38,6853,6967,432651

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.

All data sources

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, Paraguay, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.