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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Cape VerdeBurkina FasoOmanCanada
42211,0752,34830,510
43011,4052,40330,796
43811,8282,45731,132
44712,3802,51031,473
45512,8292,56231,758
46313,1782,61332,055
47113,5402,66332,360
47813,9172,71332,688
48614,3092,76433,007
49414,7222,81633,367
50115,1522,87133,750
50915,6002,92834,127
51616,0642,98634,463
52416,5633,04734,839
53117,0723,11035,209
53917,5753,17435,565
54618,0943,24035,831
55318,6213,30736,239
56219,1573,37536,677
56819,6983,44437,198
57420,2423,51237,736
58020,7883,58238,174
58521,3363,65138,383
59021,8893,69638,685

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.

All data sources

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 Cape Verde, Burkina Faso, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.