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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	Oman	Romania	São Tomé & Príncipe
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	2,348	22,414	138
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	2,403	22,262	141
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	2,457	22,106	144
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	2,510	21,931	147
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	2,562	21,828	151
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	2,613	21,704	154
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	2,663	21,571	158
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	2,713	21,443	161
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	2,764	21,129	165
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	2,816	20,779	168
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	2,871	20,607	172
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	2,928	20,485	176
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	2,986	20,385	180
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	3,047	20,296	183
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	3,110	20,224	187
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	3,174	20,151	190
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	3,240	20,055	194
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	3,307	19,938	198
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	3,375	19,823	201
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	3,444	19,713	204
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	3,512	19,622	208
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	3,582	19,496	212
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	3,651	19,351	216
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	3,696	19,266	220

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

No separate list is published for Oman, São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.