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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date DominicaCanadaOmanQatar
7030,5102,348627
7130,7962,403659
7131,1322,457691
7231,4732,510724
7231,7582,562757
7232,0552,613850
7232,3602,6631,001
7232,6882,7131,153
7233,0072,7641,306
7333,3672,8161,460
7333,7502,8711,615
7334,1272,9281,770
7334,4632,9861,904
7334,8393,0472,010
7335,2093,1102,103
7335,5653,1742,187
7435,8313,2402,261
7436,2393,3072,326
7436,6773,3752,384
7437,1983,4442,435
7537,7363,5122,480
7538,1743,5822,519
7638,3833,6512,553
7638,6853,6962,559

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, Oman, Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.