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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 North MacedoniaCanadaCongo - Kinshasa
2,00630,51051,181
2,01730,79652,782
2,02631,13254,453
2,01131,47356,170
2,01831,75857,860
2,02432,05559,599
2,02832,36061,474
2,03132,68863,479
2,03533,00765,590
2,03833,36767,800
2,04233,75070,114
2,04634,12772,550
2,04934,46375,138
2,05234,83977,792
2,05535,20980,534
2,05835,56583,368
2,06135,83186,229
2,06336,23989,193
2,06536,67792,209
2,06737,19895,232
2,06837,73698,320
2,06538,174101,499
2,05738,383104,767
2,04838,685108,171

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

North Macedonia

  • 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.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.