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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	Puerto Rico	Iceland
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	3,800	277
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	3,811	281
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	3,819	285
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	3,824	288
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	3,826	289
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	3,827	293
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	3,822	296
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	3,805	304
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	3,783	311
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	3,761	319
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	3,741	319
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	3,722	318
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	3,679	319
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	3,636	321
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	3,589	324
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	3,534	327
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	3,473	331
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	3,411	335
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	3,352	343
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	3,295	353
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	3,268	361
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	3,247	366
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	3,232	372
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	3,228	380

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.

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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