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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	Uganda
Dec 31, 1999	277	30,510	2,348	23,408
Dec 31, 2000	281	30,796	2,403	24,195
Dec 31, 2001	285	31,132	2,457	24,992
Dec 31, 2002	288	31,473	2,510	25,846
Dec 31, 2003	289	31,758	2,562	26,661
Dec 31, 2004	293	32,055	2,613	27,414
Dec 31, 2005	296	32,360	2,663	28,200
Dec 31, 2006	304	32,688	2,713	29,021
Dec 31, 2007	311	33,007	2,764	29,846
Dec 31, 2008	319	33,367	2,816	30,647
Dec 31, 2009	319	33,750	2,871	31,469
Dec 31, 2010	318	34,127	2,928	32,343
Dec 31, 2011	319	34,463	2,986	33,257
Dec 31, 2012	321	34,839	3,047	34,234
Dec 31, 2013	324	35,209	3,110	35,271
Dec 31, 2014	327	35,565	3,174	36,419
Dec 31, 2015	331	35,831	3,240	37,673
Dec 31, 2016	335	36,239	3,307	39,157
Dec 31, 2017	343	36,677	3,375	40,879
Dec 31, 2018	353	37,198	3,444	42,329
Dec 31, 2019	361	37,736	3,512	43,639
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,174	3,582	45,120
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,383	3,651	46,645
Dec 31, 2022	380	38,685	3,696	48,065

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.

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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