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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 - KinshasaCentral African RepublicCanada
51,1813,88930,510
52,7823,98030,796
54,4534,05431,132
56,1704,12831,473
57,8604,21531,758
59,5994,28932,055
61,4744,36332,360
63,4794,44932,688
65,5904,54433,007
67,8004,64133,367
70,1144,74233,750
72,5504,84534,127
75,1384,95034,463
77,7925,05734,839
80,5345,16735,209
83,3685,27835,565
86,2295,39235,831
89,1935,50736,239
92,2095,62536,677
95,2325,74537,198
98,3205,87437,736
101,4996,02538,174
104,7676,15438,383
108,1716,29138,685

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, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.