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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	United States	Egypt	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	279,040	66,001	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	282,162	67,377	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	284,969	68,790	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	287,625	70,269	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	290,108	71,785	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	292,805	73,298	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	295,517	74,832	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	298,380	76,432	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	301,231	78,140	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	304,094	79,945	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	306,772	81,840	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	309,327	83,844	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	311,583	85,969	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	313,878	88,198	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	316,060	90,566	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	318,386	93,009	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	320,739	95,432	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	323,072	97,882	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	325,122	100,303	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	326,838	102,617	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	328,330	104,816	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	331,512	106,893	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	332,032	108,871	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	333,288	110,593	5,907

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.

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

Egypt

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
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 Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.