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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 Puerto RicoTrinidad & TobagoCanada
3,8001,30130,510
3,8111,30330,796
3,8191,30831,132
3,8241,31431,473
3,8261,32031,758
3,8271,32632,055
3,8221,33232,360
3,8051,33832,688
3,7831,34433,007
3,7611,35233,367
3,7411,35933,750
3,7221,36534,127
3,6791,37234,463
3,6361,37934,839
3,5891,38635,209
3,5341,39235,565
3,4731,39935,831
3,4111,40536,239
3,3521,41136,677
3,2951,43637,198
3,2681,45237,736
3,2471,44838,174
3,2321,45038,383
3,2281,45638,685

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 Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.