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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	Saudi Arabia	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	279,040	19,964	273
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	282,162	20,426	274
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	284,969	20,956	275
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	287,625	21,549	276
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	290,108	22,189	278
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	292,805	22,850	279
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	295,517	23,516	280
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	298,380	24,178	281
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	301,231	24,841	282
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	304,094	25,518	283
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	306,772	26,227	285
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	309,327	27,068	286
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	311,583	27,810	287
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	313,878	28,516	288
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	316,060	29,220	289
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	318,386	29,936	290
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	320,739	30,646	291
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	323,072	31,360	291
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	325,122	32,184	292
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	326,838	32,869	293
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	328,330	33,661	294
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	331,512	34,542	294
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	332,032	33,651	295
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	333,288	34,081	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.

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).

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 Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.