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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 EstoniaCongo - KinshasaCanada
1,37851,18130,510
1,40052,78230,796
1,39154,45331,132
1,38256,17031,473
1,37457,86031,758
1,36559,59932,055
1,35761,47432,360
1,34963,47932,688
1,34165,59033,007
1,33767,80033,367
1,33470,11433,750
1,33272,55034,127
1,32875,13834,463
1,32477,79234,839
1,31980,53435,209
1,31483,36835,565
1,31286,22935,831
1,31489,19336,239
1,31492,20936,677
1,31895,23237,198
1,32398,32037,736
1,327101,49938,174
1,329104,76738,383
1,330108,17138,685

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