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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	Dominica	Barbados	Canada	Laos
Dec 31, 1999	70	273	30,510	5,286
Dec 31, 2000	71	274	30,796	5,397
Dec 31, 2001	71	275	31,132	5,499
Dec 31, 2002	72	276	31,473	5,578
Dec 31, 2003	72	278	31,758	5,654
Dec 31, 2004	72	279	32,055	5,746
Dec 31, 2005	72	280	32,360	5,836
Dec 31, 2006	72	281	32,688	5,931
Dec 31, 2007	72	282	33,007	6,035
Dec 31, 2008	73	283	33,367	6,145
Dec 31, 2009	73	285	33,750	6,257
Dec 31, 2010	73	286	34,127	6,368
Dec 31, 2011	73	287	34,463	6,477
Dec 31, 2012	73	288	34,839	6,586
Dec 31, 2013	73	289	35,209	6,695
Dec 31, 2014	73	290	35,565	6,804
Dec 31, 2015	74	291	35,831	6,912
Dec 31, 2016	74	291	36,239	7,019
Dec 31, 2017	74	292	36,677	7,127
Dec 31, 2018	74	293	37,198	7,234
Dec 31, 2019	75	294	37,736	7,343
Dec 31, 2020	75	294	38,174	7,452
Dec 31, 2021	76	295	38,383	7,560
Dec 31, 2022	76	295	38,685	7,666

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 Dominica, Barbados, Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.