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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	Sudan	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	279,040	26,168	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	282,162	26,771	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	284,969	27,387	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	287,625	28,017	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	290,108	28,662	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	292,805	29,321	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	295,517	29,996	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	298,380	30,686	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	301,231	31,393	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	304,094	32,137	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	306,772	33,078	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	309,327	33,891	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	311,583	34,568	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	313,878	35,293	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	316,060	36,093	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	318,386	37,058	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	320,739	38,165	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	323,072	39,294	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	325,122	40,512	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	326,838	41,764	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	328,330	42,952	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	331,512	44,121	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	332,032	45,290	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	333,288	46,498	11,695

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).

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

No separate list is published for Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.