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United States
341,784,857people · 2025Canada
41,651,653people · 2025Population over time
Aligned annual observations: 2000–2025. Values refer to the same reporting year.
Estimated population at midyear, counting residents regardless of citizenship or legal status. This is a midyear estimate rather than a census-day count.
Aligned comparison table
| Year | United States | Canada | Difference (first − second) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 341,784,857 | 41,651,653 | 300,133,204 |
| 2024 | 340,003,797 | 41,262,329 | 298,741,468 |
| 2023 | 336,755,052 | 40,049,088 | 296,705,964 |
| 2022 | 333,996,304 | 38,950,132 | 295,046,172 |
| 2021 | 332,100,166 | 38,239,864 | 293,860,302 |
| 2020 | 331,578,104 | 38,028,638 | 293,549,466 |
| 2019 | 330,226,227 | 37,618,495 | 292,607,732 |
| 2018 | 328,529,577 | 37,072,620 | 291,456,957 |
| 2017 | 326,608,609 | 36,545,075 | 290,063,534 |
| 2016 | 324,353,340 | 36,110,803 | 288,242,537 |
| 2015 | 321,815,121 | 35,704,498 | 286,110,623 |
| 2014 | 319,257,560 | 35,434,066 | 283,823,494 |
| 2013 | 316,726,282 | 35,080,992 | 281,645,290 |
| 2012 | 314,339,099 | 34,713,395 | 279,625,704 |
| 2011 | 311,839,461 | 34,339,221 | 277,500,240 |
| 2010 | 309,378,227 | 34,005,902 | 275,372,325 |
| 2009 | 306,771,529 | 33,630,069 | 273,141,460 |
| 2008 | 304,093,966 | 33,247,298 | 270,846,668 |
| 2007 | 301,231,207 | 32,888,886 | 268,342,321 |
| 2006 | 298,379,912 | 32,571,193 | 265,808,719 |
| 2005 | 295,516,599 | 32,242,732 | 263,273,867 |
| 2004 | 292,805,298 | 31,938,807 | 260,866,491 |
| 2003 | 290,107,933 | 31,642,461 | 258,465,472 |
| 2002 | 287,625,193 | 31,359,199 | 256,265,994 |
| 2001 | 284,968,955 | 31,020,855 | 253,948,100 |
| 2000 | 282,162,411 | 30,685,730 | 251,476,681 |
Source: World Bank World Development Indicators. Dataset and license.
Modeled unemployment and employment series are available in the data library. Cross-country comparison is disabled because the source does not flag individual imputed values. GDP per capita in constant dollars is not a measure of household income or purchasing power.