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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	Benin	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	277	6,461	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	281	6,677	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	285	6,902	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	288	7,130	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	289	7,360	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	293	7,589	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	296	7,838	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	304	8,089	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	311	8,335	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	319	8,603	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	319	8,884	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	318	9,179	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	319	9,486	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	321	9,805	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	324	10,135	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	327	10,480	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	331	10,842	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	335	11,220	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	343	11,613	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	353	12,018	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	361	12,370	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	366	12,725	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	372	13,081	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	380	13,439	38,685

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

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 Benin; the database as a whole is cited above.