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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date LithuaniaBosnia & HerzegovinaCanada
3,4193,81130,510
3,3953,90130,796
3,3673,91931,132
3,3403,92331,473
3,3133,94031,758
3,2763,97532,055
3,2233,99132,360
3,1723,99332,688
3,1343,99033,007
3,1023,98733,367
3,0683,98533,750
3,0043,98334,127
2,9373,98034,463
2,8983,97734,839
2,8693,97335,209
2,8443,96835,565
2,8183,96335,831
2,7823,95736,239
2,7443,95136,677
2,7183,94437,198
2,7103,93737,736
2,7113,92938,174
2,7243,92138,383
2,7483,87638,685

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.

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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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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 Lithuania; the database as a whole is cited above.