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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	Greece	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	277	30,510	10,618	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	281	30,796	10,662	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	285	31,132	10,718	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	288	31,473	10,757	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	289	31,758	10,783	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	293	32,055	10,809	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	296	32,360	10,841	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	304	32,688	10,874	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	311	33,007	10,901	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	319	33,367	10,930	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	319	33,750	10,959	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	318	34,127	10,973	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	319	34,463	10,957	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	321	34,839	10,898	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	324	35,209	10,819	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	327	35,565	10,747	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	331	35,831	10,677	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	335	36,239	10,633	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	343	36,677	10,612	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	353	37,198	10,590	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	361	37,736	10,579	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,174	10,556	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,383	10,499	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	380	38,685	10,437	108,171

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.

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.