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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 TanzaniaCanadaParaguay
32,91230,5105,366
33,95330,7965,473
34,97431,1325,579
36,02131,4735,683
37,10031,7585,786
38,16732,0555,886
39,26232,3605,984
40,38732,6886,080
41,55733,0076,173
42,74133,3676,264
43,88933,7506,352
45,13234,1276,438
46,53134,4636,522
47,96534,8396,605
49,43735,2096,688
50,96535,5656,769
52,60435,8316,850
54,33636,2396,930
56,06236,6777,012
57,76537,1987,095
59,46537,7367,179
61,19138,1747,263
62,94438,3837,348
64,83538,6857,432

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 Tanzania, Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.