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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	Oman	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	70	30,510	2,348	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	71	30,796	2,403	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	71	31,132	2,457	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	72	31,473	2,510	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	72	31,758	2,562	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	72	32,055	2,613	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	72	32,360	2,663	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	72	32,688	2,713	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	72	33,007	2,764	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	73	33,367	2,816	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	73	33,750	2,871	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	73	34,127	2,928	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	73	34,463	2,986	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	73	34,839	3,047	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	73	35,209	3,110	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	73	35,565	3,174	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	74	35,831	3,240	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	74	36,239	3,307	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	74	36,677	3,375	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	74	37,198	3,444	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	75	37,736	3,512	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	75	38,174	3,582	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	76	38,383	3,651	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	76	38,685	3,696	11,695

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.

Belgium

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

No separate list is published for Dominica, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.