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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 TunisiaCanadaCongo - Kinshasa
9,41730,51051,181
9,51430,79652,782
9,61331,13254,453
9,71131,47356,170
9,81031,75857,860
9,90632,05559,599
9,99732,36061,474
10,08732,68863,479
10,17833,00765,590
10,27433,36767,800
10,37733,75070,114
10,49134,12772,550
10,61234,46375,138
10,73734,83977,792
10,86635,20980,534
10,99635,56583,368
11,12435,83186,229
11,24836,23989,193
11,36536,67792,209
11,47737,19895,232
11,58337,73698,320
11,68138,174101,499
11,77238,383104,767
11,86238,685108,171

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 Tunisia, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.