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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	Burkina Faso	Canada	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	70	11,075	30,510	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	71	11,405	30,796	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	71	11,828	31,132	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	72	12,380	31,473	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	72	12,829	31,758	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	72	13,178	32,055	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	72	13,540	32,360	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	72	13,917	32,688	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	72	14,309	33,007	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	73	14,722	33,367	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	73	15,152	33,750	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	73	15,600	34,127	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	73	16,064	34,463	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	73	16,563	34,839	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	73	17,072	35,209	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	73	17,575	35,565	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	74	18,094	35,831	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	74	18,621	36,239	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	74	19,157	36,677	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	74	19,698	37,198	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	75	20,242	37,736	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	75	20,788	38,174	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	76	21,336	38,383	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	76	21,889	38,685	7,432

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, Burkina Faso, Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.