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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 LuxembourgParaguayOmanCanada
4335,3662,34830,510
4385,4732,40330,796
4435,5792,45731,132
4485,6832,51031,473
4545,7862,56231,758
4605,8862,61332,055
4675,9842,66332,360
4746,0802,71332,688
4826,1732,76433,007
4916,2642,81633,367
5006,3522,87133,750
5096,4382,92834,127
5216,5222,98634,463
5336,6053,04734,839
5476,6883,11035,209
5606,7693,17435,565
5716,8503,24035,831
5866,9303,30736,239
5997,0123,37536,677
6107,0953,44437,198
6237,1793,51237,736
6337,2633,58238,174
6437,3483,65138,383
6517,4323,69638,685

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.

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