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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	Ecuador	Congo - Kinshasa	Canada	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	51,181	30,510	273
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	52,782	30,796	274
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	54,453	31,132	275
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	56,170	31,473	276
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	57,860	31,758	278
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	59,599	32,055	279
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	61,474	32,360	280
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	63,479	32,688	281
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	65,590	33,007	282
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	67,800	33,367	283
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	70,114	33,750	285
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	72,550	34,127	286
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	75,138	34,463	287
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	77,792	34,839	288
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	80,534	35,209	289
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	83,368	35,565	290
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	86,229	35,831	291
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	89,193	36,239	291
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	92,209	36,677	292
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	95,232	37,198	293
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	98,320	37,736	294
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	101,499	38,174	294
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	104,767	38,383	295
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	108,171	38,685	295

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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