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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	Mali	Canada	Dominica
Dec 31, 1999	10,596	30,510	70
Dec 31, 2000	10,833	30,796	71
Dec 31, 2001	10,890	31,132	71
Dec 31, 2002	11,007	31,473	72
Dec 31, 2003	11,307	31,758	72
Dec 31, 2004	11,579	32,055	72
Dec 31, 2005	11,804	32,360	72
Dec 31, 2006	12,043	32,688	72
Dec 31, 2007	12,337	33,007	72
Dec 31, 2008	12,657	33,367	73
Dec 31, 2009	12,986	33,750	73
Dec 31, 2010	13,325	34,127	73
Dec 31, 2011	13,679	34,463	73
Dec 31, 2012	14,040	34,839	73
Dec 31, 2013	14,412	35,209	73
Dec 31, 2014	14,803	35,565	73
Dec 31, 2015	15,210	35,831	74
Dec 31, 2016	15,629	36,239	74
Dec 31, 2017	16,060	36,677	74
Dec 31, 2018	16,507	37,198	74
Dec 31, 2019	16,967	37,736	75
Dec 31, 2020	17,442	38,174	75
Dec 31, 2021	17,930	38,383	76
Dec 31, 2022	18,494	38,685	76

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, Dominica; the database as a whole is cited above.