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

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.