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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	Yemen	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	5,366	16,728	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	5,473	17,236	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	5,579	17,762	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	5,683	18,310	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	5,786	18,855	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	5,886	19,410	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	5,984	20,000	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	6,080	20,611	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	6,173	21,236	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	6,264	21,878	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	6,352	22,533	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	6,438	23,195	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	6,522	23,880	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	6,605	24,594	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	6,688	25,311	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	6,769	26,020	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	6,850	26,698	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	6,930	27,347	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	7,012	27,985	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	7,095	28,608	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	7,179	29,216	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	7,263	29,811	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	7,348	30,399	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	7,432	31,058	19,266

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