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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 LuxembourgSudanOmanCanada
43326,1682,34830,510
43826,7712,40330,796
44327,3872,45731,132
44828,0172,51031,473
45428,6622,56231,758
46029,3212,61332,055
46729,9962,66332,360
47430,6862,71332,688
48231,3932,76433,007
49132,1372,81633,367
50033,0782,87133,750
50933,8912,92834,127
52134,5682,98634,463
53335,2933,04734,839
54736,0933,11035,209
56037,0583,17435,565
57138,1653,24035,831
58639,2943,30736,239
59940,5123,37536,677
61041,7643,44437,198
62342,9523,51237,736
63344,1213,58238,174
64345,2903,65138,383
65146,4983,69638,685

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