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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	Barbados	Canada	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	277	273	30,510	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	281	274	30,796	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	285	275	31,132	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	288	276	31,473	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	289	278	31,758	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	293	279	32,055	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	296	280	32,360	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	304	281	32,688	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	311	282	33,007	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	319	283	33,367	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	319	285	33,750	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	318	286	34,127	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	319	287	34,463	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	321	288	34,839	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	324	289	35,209	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	327	290	35,565	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	331	291	35,831	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	335	291	36,239	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	343	292	36,677	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	353	293	37,198	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	361	294	37,736	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	366	294	38,174	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	372	295	38,383	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	380	295	38,685	8,834

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.

Switzerland

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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