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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 DominicaSudanOmanCanada
7026,1682,34830,510
7126,7712,40330,796
7127,3872,45731,132
7228,0172,51031,473
7228,6622,56231,758
7229,3212,61332,055
7229,9962,66332,360
7230,6862,71332,688
7231,3932,76433,007
7332,1372,81633,367
7333,0782,87133,750
7333,8912,92834,127
7334,5682,98634,463
7335,2933,04734,839
7336,0933,11035,209
7337,0583,17435,565
7438,1653,24035,831
7439,2943,30736,239
7440,5123,37536,677
7441,7643,44437,198
7542,9523,51237,736
7544,1213,58238,174
7645,2903,65138,383
7646,4983,69638,685

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