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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 CanadaSudanCongo - Kinshasa
30,51026,16851,181
30,79626,77152,782
31,13227,38754,453
31,47328,01756,170
31,75828,66257,860
32,05529,32159,599
32,36029,99661,474
32,68830,68663,479
33,00731,39365,590
33,36732,13767,800
33,75033,07870,114
34,12733,89172,550
34,46334,56875,138
34,83935,29377,792
35,20936,09380,534
35,56537,05883,368
35,83138,16586,229
36,23939,29489,193
36,67740,51292,209
37,19841,76495,232
37,73642,95298,320
38,17444,121101,499
38,38345,290104,767
38,68546,498108,171

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 Sudan, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.