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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	Oman	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	277	30,510	2,348	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	281	30,796	2,403	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	285	31,132	2,457	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	288	31,473	2,510	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	289	31,758	2,562	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	293	32,055	2,613	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	296	32,360	2,663	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	304	32,688	2,713	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	311	33,007	2,764	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	319	33,367	2,816	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	319	33,750	2,871	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	318	34,127	2,928	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	319	34,463	2,986	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	321	34,839	3,047	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	324	35,209	3,110	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	327	35,565	3,174	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	331	35,831	3,240	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	335	36,239	3,307	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	343	36,677	3,375	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	353	37,198	3,444	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	361	37,736	3,512	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,174	3,582	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,383	3,651	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	380	38,685	3,696	51,332

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.

Colombia

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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