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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 CanadaTrinidad & TobagoParaguay
30,5101,3015,366
30,7961,3035,473
31,1321,3085,579
31,4731,3145,683
31,7581,3205,786
32,0551,3265,886
32,3601,3325,984
32,6881,3386,080
33,0071,3446,173
33,3671,3526,264
33,7501,3596,352
34,1271,3656,438
34,4631,3726,522
34,8391,3796,605
35,2091,3866,688
35,5651,3926,769
35,8311,3996,850
36,2391,4056,930
36,6771,4117,012
37,1981,4367,095
37,7361,4527,179
38,1741,4487,263
38,3831,4507,348
38,6851,4567,432

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 Trinidad & Tobago, Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.