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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 CanadaParaguayHaiti
30,5105,3668,121
30,7965,4738,279
31,1325,5798,430
31,4735,6838,580
31,7585,7868,739
32,0555,8868,900
32,3605,9849,061
32,6886,0809,216
33,0076,1739,364
33,3676,2649,508
33,7506,3529,652
34,1276,4389,553
34,4636,5229,670
34,8396,6059,793
35,2096,6889,922
35,5656,76910,047
35,8316,85010,254
36,2396,93010,486
36,6777,01210,647
37,1987,09510,788
37,7367,17910,933
38,1747,26311,077
38,3837,34811,215
38,6857,43211,349

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.

No separate list is published for Paraguay, Haiti; the database as a whole is cited above.