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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 Trinidad & TobagoCanadaLaos
1,30130,5105,286
1,30330,7965,397
1,30831,1325,499
1,31431,4735,578
1,32031,7585,654
1,32632,0555,746
1,33232,3605,836
1,33832,6885,931
1,34433,0076,035
1,35233,3676,145
1,35933,7506,257
1,36534,1276,368
1,37234,4636,477
1,37934,8396,586
1,38635,2096,695
1,39235,5656,804
1,39935,8316,912
1,40536,2397,019
1,41136,6777,127
1,43637,1987,234
1,45237,7367,343
1,44838,1747,452
1,45038,3837,560
1,45638,6857,666

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