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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Croatia	Canada	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	4,377	30,510	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	4,334	30,796	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	4,171	31,132	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	4,176	31,473	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	4,176	31,758	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	4,179	32,055	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	4,182	32,360	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	4,183	32,688	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	4,183	33,007	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	4,181	33,367	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	4,177	33,750	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	4,167	34,127	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	4,154	34,463	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	4,141	34,839	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	4,126	35,209	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	4,109	35,565	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	4,081	35,831	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	4,047	36,239	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	4,006	36,677	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	3,968	37,198	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	3,945	37,736	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	3,925	38,174	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	3,839	38,383	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	3,790	38,685	2,787

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

Croatia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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 Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.