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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	Oman	Canada	Comoros
Dec 31, 1999	277	2,348	30,510	531
Dec 31, 2000	281	2,403	30,796	545
Dec 31, 2001	285	2,457	31,132	559
Dec 31, 2002	288	2,510	31,473	574
Dec 31, 2003	289	2,562	31,758	590
Dec 31, 2004	293	2,613	32,055	606
Dec 31, 2005	296	2,663	32,360	623
Dec 31, 2006	304	2,713	32,688	640
Dec 31, 2007	311	2,764	33,007	657
Dec 31, 2008	319	2,816	33,367	674
Dec 31, 2009	319	2,871	33,750	690
Dec 31, 2010	318	2,928	34,127	706
Dec 31, 2011	319	2,986	34,463	722
Dec 31, 2012	321	3,047	34,839	737
Dec 31, 2013	324	3,110	35,209	752
Dec 31, 2014	327	3,174	35,565	767
Dec 31, 2015	331	3,240	35,831	781
Dec 31, 2016	335	3,307	36,239	795
Dec 31, 2017	343	3,375	36,677	808
Dec 31, 2018	353	3,444	37,198	821
Dec 31, 2019	361	3,512	37,736	837
Dec 31, 2020	366	3,582	38,174	853
Dec 31, 2021	372	3,651	38,383	869
Dec 31, 2022	380	3,696	38,685	885

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 Oman, Comoros; the database as a whole is cited above.