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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 MoroccoCanadaCongo - Kinshasa
28,40030,51051,181
28,74430,79652,782
29,09431,13254,453
29,44731,47356,170
29,80631,75857,860
30,16932,05559,599
30,55232,36061,474
30,95332,68863,479
31,35433,00765,590
31,75433,36767,800
32,15433,75070,114
32,55334,12772,550
32,95134,46375,138
33,34634,83977,792
33,73735,20980,534
34,12435,56583,368
34,51135,83186,229
34,89836,23989,193
35,27936,67792,209
35,65337,19895,232
36,01837,73698,320
36,37538,174101,499
36,72338,383104,767
37,10138,685108,171

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

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 Morocco, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.