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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Montenegro	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	623	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	623	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	623	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	622	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	621	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	621	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	621	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	620	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	620	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	621	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	622	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	623	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	622	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	622	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	622	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	621	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	620	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	618	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	616	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	614	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	613	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	612	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	611	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	610	38,685

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

Montenegro

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.