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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 - KinshasaMadagascarCanada
51,18115,25930,510
52,78215,70730,796
54,45316,16231,132
56,17016,63131,473
57,86017,11431,758
59,59917,61032,055
61,47418,12032,360
63,47918,64132,688
65,59019,17333,007
67,80019,71733,367
70,11420,27233,750
72,55020,83734,127
75,13821,41334,463
77,79221,99934,839
80,53422,59335,209
83,36823,19635,565
86,22923,80635,831
89,19324,42336,239
92,20925,04436,677
95,23225,67137,198
98,32026,30237,736
101,49926,93638,174
104,76727,57338,383
108,17128,23738,685

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