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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 - KinshasaSudanCanada
51,18126,16830,510
52,78226,77130,796
54,45327,38731,132
56,17028,01731,473
57,86028,66231,758
59,59929,32132,055
61,47429,99632,360
63,47930,68632,688
65,59031,39333,007
67,80032,13733,367
70,11433,07833,750
72,55033,89134,127
75,13834,56834,463
77,79235,29334,839
80,53436,09335,209
83,36837,05835,565
86,22938,16535,831
89,19339,29436,239
92,20940,51236,677
95,23241,76437,198
98,32042,95237,736
101,49944,12138,174
104,76745,29038,383
108,17146,49838,685

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