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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Dominican RepublicCongo - KinshasaCanada
8,17551,18130,510
8,30152,78230,796
8,42754,45331,132
8,55356,17031,473
8,67857,86031,758
8,80159,59932,055
8,92461,47432,360
9,04463,47932,688
9,16465,59033,007
9,28167,80033,367
9,39870,11433,750
9,51272,55034,127
9,62775,13834,463
9,74277,79234,839
9,85580,53435,209
9,96583,36835,565
10,07286,22935,831
10,17789,19336,239
10,28192,20936,677
10,38595,23237,198
10,48798,32037,736
10,587101,49938,174
10,686104,76738,383
10,793108,17138,685

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.

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