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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 MaliCanada
10,59630,510
10,83330,796
10,89031,132
11,00731,473
11,30731,758
11,57932,055
11,80432,360
12,04332,688
12,33733,007
12,65733,367
12,98633,750
13,32534,127
13,67934,463
14,04034,839
14,41235,209
14,80335,565
15,21035,831
15,62936,239
16,06036,677
16,50737,198
16,96737,736
17,44238,174
17,93038,383
18,49438,685

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

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 Mali; the database as a whole is cited above.