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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	Paraguay	Iceland	Yemen
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	5,366	277	16,728
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	5,473	281	17,236
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	5,579	285	17,762
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	5,683	288	18,310
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	5,786	289	18,855
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	5,886	293	19,410
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	5,984	296	20,000
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	6,080	304	20,611
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	6,173	311	21,236
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	6,264	319	21,878
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	6,352	319	22,533
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	6,438	318	23,195
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	6,522	319	23,880
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	6,605	321	24,594
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	6,688	324	25,311
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	6,769	327	26,020
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	6,850	331	26,698
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	6,930	335	27,347
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	7,012	343	27,985
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	7,095	353	28,608
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	7,179	361	29,216
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	7,263	366	29,811
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	7,348	372	30,399
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	7,432	380	31,058

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