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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 SenegalCanadaQatar
10,07030,510627
10,30530,796659
10,57631,132691
10,86431,473724
11,17231,758757
11,49832,055850
11,83932,3601,001
12,20432,6881,153
12,58433,0071,306
12,97833,3671,460
13,38233,7501,615
13,79434,1271,770
14,22634,4631,904
14,66834,8392,010
15,12135,2092,103
15,58935,5652,187
16,06635,8312,261
16,54936,2392,326
17,04436,6772,384
17,53537,1982,435
18,02137,7362,480
18,51838,1742,519
19,01638,3832,553
19,51238,6852,559

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 Senegal, Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.