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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 VietnamBurkina FasoCanada
78,39411,07530,510
79,47211,40530,796
80,54611,82831,132
81,63712,38031,473
82,72012,82931,758
83,82113,17832,055
84,94213,54032,360
86,03613,91732,688
87,13614,30933,007
88,25314,72233,367
89,37315,15233,750
90,48115,60034,127
91,59116,06434,463
92,72016,56334,839
93,88317,07235,209
95,05517,57535,565
96,22218,09435,831
97,38018,62136,239
98,50719,15736,677
99,60419,69837,198
100,69520,24237,736
101,77120,78838,174
102,81521,33638,383
103,57421,88938,685

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 Vietnam, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.