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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 PakistanCanadaAlbania
141,49730,5103,085
145,75930,7963,065
150,44831,1323,047
154,58531,4733,038
158,20931,7583,026
161,55632,0553,014
165,07532,3602,998
168,84632,6882,979
172,88233,0072,957
176,80933,3672,934
180,69033,7502,915
184,98934,1272,900
189,31434,4632,892
193,56934,8392,888
197,99435,2092,882
202,38735,5652,876
206,71635,8312,868
210,92936,2392,863
215,27636,6772,861
219,92737,1982,854
224,60437,7362,842
229,27638,1742,825
233,94238,3832,799
238,41338,6852,787

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 Pakistan, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.