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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	Türkiye	Morocco
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	279,040	65,020	28,400
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	282,162	65,949	28,744
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	284,969	66,869	29,094
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	287,625	67,728	29,447
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	290,108	68,541	29,806
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	292,805	69,366	30,169
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	295,517	70,224	30,552
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	298,380	71,106	30,953
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	301,231	71,992	31,354
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	304,094	72,909	31,754
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	306,772	73,922	32,154
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	309,327	75,054	32,553
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	311,583	76,164	32,951
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	313,878	77,141	33,346
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	316,060	78,138	33,737
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	318,386	79,199	34,124
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	320,739	80,262	34,511
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	323,072	81,350	34,898
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	325,122	82,412	35,279
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	326,838	83,535	35,653
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	328,330	84,737	36,018
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	331,512	85,564	36,375
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	332,032	86,346	36,723
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	333,288	87,201	37,101

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).

Türkiye

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 - 1820: 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; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

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