Skip to content
ChartBasis
Choose a language: English

Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Add a country

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 CanadaParaguayCongo - Kinshasa
30,5105,36651,181
30,7965,47352,782
31,1325,57954,453
31,4735,68356,170
31,7585,78657,860
32,0555,88659,599
32,3605,98461,474
32,6886,08063,479
33,0076,17365,590
33,3676,26467,800
33,7506,35270,114
34,1276,43872,550
34,4636,52275,138
34,8396,60577,792
35,2096,68880,534
35,5656,76983,368
35,8316,85086,229
36,2396,93089,193
36,6777,01292,209
37,1987,09595,232
37,7367,17998,320
38,1747,263101,499
38,3837,348104,767
38,6857,432108,171

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 Paraguay, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.