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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	Dominica	Canada	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	277	70	30,510	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	281	71	30,796	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	285	71	31,132	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	288	72	31,473	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	289	72	31,758	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	293	72	32,055	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	296	72	32,360	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	304	72	32,688	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	311	72	33,007	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	319	73	33,367	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	319	73	33,750	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	318	73	34,127	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	319	73	34,463	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	321	73	34,839	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	324	73	35,209	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	327	73	35,565	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	331	74	35,831	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	335	74	36,239	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	343	74	36,677	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	353	74	37,198	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	361	75	37,736	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	366	75	38,174	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	372	76	38,383	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	380	76	38,685	21,889

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.

No separate list is published for Dominica, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.