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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date SeychellesOmanBurkina FasoCanada
782,34811,07530,510
792,40311,40530,796
802,45711,82831,132
812,51012,38031,473
822,56212,82931,758
832,61313,17832,055
842,66313,54032,360
852,71313,91732,688
862,76414,30933,007
872,81614,72233,367
872,87115,15233,750
882,92815,60034,127
892,98616,06434,463
903,04716,56334,839
913,11017,07235,209
923,17417,57535,565
923,24018,09435,831
933,30718,62136,239
943,37519,15736,677
953,44419,69837,198
963,51220,24237,736
973,58220,78838,174
983,65121,33638,383
983,69621,88938,685

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.

All data sources

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 Seychelles, Oman, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.