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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	Romania	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	277	30,510	22,414	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	281	30,796	22,262	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	285	31,132	22,106	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	288	31,473	21,931	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	289	31,758	21,828	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	293	32,055	21,704	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	296	32,360	21,571	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	304	32,688	21,443	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	311	33,007	21,129	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	319	33,367	20,779	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	319	33,750	20,607	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	318	34,127	20,485	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	319	34,463	20,385	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	321	34,839	20,296	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	324	35,209	20,224	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	327	35,565	20,151	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	331	35,831	20,055	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	335	36,239	19,938	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	343	36,677	19,823	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	353	37,198	19,713	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	361	37,736	19,622	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,174	19,496	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,383	19,351	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	380	38,685	19,266	34,081

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828