Population, long-run history: compare countries
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Population, long-run history by country
Population, long-run history
Annual, Persons, thousands
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| Date | Canada | Saudi Arabia | Estonia |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30,510 | 19,964 | 1,378 | |
| 30,796 | 20,426 | 1,400 | |
| 31,132 | 20,956 | 1,391 | |
| 31,473 | 21,549 | 1,382 | |
| 31,758 | 22,189 | 1,374 | |
| 32,055 | 22,850 | 1,365 | |
| 32,360 | 23,516 | 1,357 | |
| 32,688 | 24,178 | 1,349 | |
| 33,007 | 24,841 | 1,341 | |
| 33,367 | 25,518 | 1,337 | |
| 33,750 | 26,227 | 1,334 | |
| 34,127 | 27,068 | 1,332 | |
| 34,463 | 27,810 | 1,328 | |
| 34,839 | 28,516 | 1,324 | |
| 35,209 | 29,220 | 1,319 | |
| 35,565 | 29,936 | 1,314 | |
| 35,831 | 30,646 | 1,312 | |
| 36,239 | 31,360 | 1,314 | |
| 36,677 | 32,184 | 1,314 | |
| 37,198 | 32,869 | 1,318 | |
| 37,736 | 33,661 | 1,323 | |
| 38,174 | 34,542 | 1,327 | |
| 38,383 | 33,651 | 1,329 | |
| 38,685 | 34,081 | 1,330 |
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.
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.
Saudi Arabia
- 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828
No separate list is published for Estonia; the database as a whole is cited above.