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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	Romania	Poland	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	22,414	38,358	273
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	22,262	38,344	274
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	22,106	38,339	275
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	21,931	38,320	276
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	21,828	38,283	278
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	21,704	38,268	279
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	21,571	38,249	280
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	21,443	38,220	281
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	21,129	38,204	282
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	20,779	38,204	283
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	20,607	38,572	285
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	20,485	38,606	286
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	20,385	38,615	287
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	20,296	38,623	288
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	20,224	38,591	289
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	20,151	38,573	290
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	20,055	38,544	291
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	19,938	38,516	291
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	19,823	38,511	292
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	19,713	38,502	293
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	19,622	38,475	294
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	19,496	38,443	294
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	19,351	38,250	295
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	19,266	37,914	295

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.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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