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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 - KinshasaCanadaYemen
51,18130,51016,728
52,78230,79617,236
54,45331,13217,762
56,17031,47318,310
57,86031,75818,855
59,59932,05519,410
61,47432,36020,000
63,47932,68820,611
65,59033,00721,236
67,80033,36721,878
70,11433,75022,533
72,55034,12723,195
75,13834,46323,880
77,79234,83924,594
80,53435,20925,311
83,36835,56526,020
86,22935,83126,698
89,19336,23927,347
92,20936,67727,985
95,23237,19828,608
98,32037,73629,216
101,49938,17429,811
104,76738,38330,399
108,17138,68531,058

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, Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.