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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	Congo - Kinshasa	Canada	Albania
Dec 31, 1999	70	51,181	30,510	3,085
Dec 31, 2000	71	52,782	30,796	3,065
Dec 31, 2001	71	54,453	31,132	3,047
Dec 31, 2002	72	56,170	31,473	3,038
Dec 31, 2003	72	57,860	31,758	3,026
Dec 31, 2004	72	59,599	32,055	3,014
Dec 31, 2005	72	61,474	32,360	2,998
Dec 31, 2006	72	63,479	32,688	2,979
Dec 31, 2007	72	65,590	33,007	2,957
Dec 31, 2008	73	67,800	33,367	2,934
Dec 31, 2009	73	70,114	33,750	2,915
Dec 31, 2010	73	72,550	34,127	2,900
Dec 31, 2011	73	75,138	34,463	2,892
Dec 31, 2012	73	77,792	34,839	2,888
Dec 31, 2013	73	80,534	35,209	2,882
Dec 31, 2014	73	83,368	35,565	2,876
Dec 31, 2015	74	86,229	35,831	2,868
Dec 31, 2016	74	89,193	36,239	2,863
Dec 31, 2017	74	92,209	36,677	2,861
Dec 31, 2018	74	95,232	37,198	2,854
Dec 31, 2019	75	98,320	37,736	2,842
Dec 31, 2020	75	101,499	38,174	2,825
Dec 31, 2021	76	104,767	38,383	2,799
Dec 31, 2022	76	108,171	38,685	2,787

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, Congo - Kinshasa, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.