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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	Iceland	Albania	Canada	Cambodia
Dec 31, 1999	277	3,085	30,510	12,122
Dec 31, 2000	281	3,065	30,796	12,317
Dec 31, 2001	285	3,047	31,132	12,504
Dec 31, 2002	288	3,038	31,473	12,691
Dec 31, 2003	289	3,026	31,758	12,881
Dec 31, 2004	293	3,014	32,055	13,076
Dec 31, 2005	296	2,998	32,360	13,276
Dec 31, 2006	304	2,979	32,688	13,461
Dec 31, 2007	311	2,957	33,007	13,630
Dec 31, 2008	319	2,934	33,367	13,808
Dec 31, 2009	319	2,915	33,750	13,990
Dec 31, 2010	318	2,900	34,127	14,162
Dec 31, 2011	319	2,892	34,463	14,322
Dec 31, 2012	321	2,888	34,839	14,480
Dec 31, 2013	324	2,882	35,209	14,637
Dec 31, 2014	327	2,876	35,565	14,793
Dec 31, 2015	331	2,868	35,831	14,994
Dec 31, 2016	335	2,863	36,239	15,238
Dec 31, 2017	343	2,861	36,677	15,480
Dec 31, 2018	353	2,854	37,198	15,717
Dec 31, 2019	361	2,842	37,736	15,944
Dec 31, 2020	366	2,825	38,174	16,149
Dec 31, 2021	372	2,799	38,383	16,338
Dec 31, 2022	380	2,787	38,685	16,514

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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 Albania, Cambodia; the database as a whole is cited above.