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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date LuxembourgCanadaOmanSudan
43330,5102,34826,168
43830,7962,40326,771
44331,1322,45727,387
44831,4732,51028,017
45431,7582,56228,662
46032,0552,61329,321
46732,3602,66329,996
47432,6882,71330,686
48233,0072,76431,393
49133,3672,81632,137
50033,7502,87133,078
50934,1272,92833,891
52134,4632,98634,568
53334,8393,04735,293
54735,2093,11036,093
56035,5653,17437,058
57135,8313,24038,165
58636,2393,30739,294
59936,6773,37540,512
61037,1983,44441,764
62337,7363,51242,952
63338,1743,58244,121
64338,3833,65145,290
65138,6853,69646,498

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

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