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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Tunisia	Canada	Estonia	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	9,417	30,510	1,378	273
Dec 31, 2000	9,514	30,796	1,400	274
Dec 31, 2001	9,613	31,132	1,391	275
Dec 31, 2002	9,711	31,473	1,382	276
Dec 31, 2003	9,810	31,758	1,374	278
Dec 31, 2004	9,906	32,055	1,365	279
Dec 31, 2005	9,997	32,360	1,357	280
Dec 31, 2006	10,087	32,688	1,349	281
Dec 31, 2007	10,178	33,007	1,341	282
Dec 31, 2008	10,274	33,367	1,337	283
Dec 31, 2009	10,377	33,750	1,334	285
Dec 31, 2010	10,491	34,127	1,332	286
Dec 31, 2011	10,612	34,463	1,328	287
Dec 31, 2012	10,737	34,839	1,324	288
Dec 31, 2013	10,866	35,209	1,319	289
Dec 31, 2014	10,996	35,565	1,314	290
Dec 31, 2015	11,124	35,831	1,312	291
Dec 31, 2016	11,248	36,239	1,314	291
Dec 31, 2017	11,365	36,677	1,314	292
Dec 31, 2018	11,477	37,198	1,318	293
Dec 31, 2019	11,583	37,736	1,323	294
Dec 31, 2020	11,681	38,174	1,327	294
Dec 31, 2021	11,772	38,383	1,329	295
Dec 31, 2022	11,862	38,685	1,330	295

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 Tunisia, Estonia, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.