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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 Congo - KinshasaCanadaCôte d’Ivoire
51,18130,51017,106
52,78230,79617,552
54,45331,13218,010
56,17031,47318,438
57,86031,75818,895
59,59932,05519,432
61,47432,36019,968
63,47932,68820,512
65,59033,00721,097
67,80033,36721,699
70,11433,75022,285
72,55034,12722,845
75,13834,46323,343
77,79234,83923,879
80,53435,20924,492
83,36835,56525,104
86,22935,83125,719
89,19336,23926,348
92,20936,67726,984
95,23237,19827,614
98,32037,73628,252
101,49938,17428,895
104,76738,38329,546
108,17138,68530,279

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Côte d’Ivoire; the database as a whole is cited above.