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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	Canada	Burkina Faso	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	70	30,510	11,075	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	71	30,796	11,405	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	71	31,132	11,828	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	72	31,473	12,380	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	72	31,758	12,829	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	72	32,055	13,178	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	72	32,360	13,540	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	72	32,688	13,917	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	72	33,007	14,309	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	73	33,367	14,722	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	73	33,750	15,152	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	73	34,127	15,600	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	73	34,463	16,064	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	73	34,839	16,563	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	73	35,209	17,072	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	73	35,565	17,575	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	74	35,831	18,094	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	74	36,239	18,621	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	74	36,677	19,157	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	74	37,198	19,698	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	75	37,736	20,242	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	75	38,174	20,788	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	76	38,383	21,336	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	76	38,685	21,889	5,907

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, Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.