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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 ChileCanadaBangladesh
15,14030,510132,907
15,34030,796135,207
15,51331,132137,420
15,68631,473139,573
15,85931,758141,650
16,02932,055143,644
16,22232,360145,546
16,36432,688147,376
16,53633,007149,047
16,70033,367150,562
16,86433,750152,189
16,99934,127153,927
17,18934,463155,634
17,37834,839157,326
17,54535,209158,999
17,72035,565160,650
17,90435,831162,273
18,09936,239163,938
18,35036,677165,655
18,68137,198167,358
19,03537,736169,045
19,38538,174170,709
19,60438,383172,354
19,71538,685174,217

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

Chile

  • 1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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.

Bangladesh

  • 1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995