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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 EstoniaCanadaBosnia & Herzegovina
1,37830,5103,811
1,40030,7963,901
1,39131,1323,919
1,38231,4733,923
1,37431,7583,940
1,36532,0553,975
1,35732,3603,991
1,34932,6883,993
1,34133,0073,990
1,33733,3673,987
1,33433,7503,985
1,33234,1273,983
1,32834,4633,980
1,32434,8393,977
1,31935,2093,973
1,31435,5653,968
1,31235,8313,963
1,31436,2393,957
1,31436,6773,951
1,31837,1983,944
1,32337,7363,937
1,32738,1743,929
1,32938,3833,921
1,33038,6853,876

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

No separate list is published for Estonia; the database as a whole is cited above.