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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Afghanistan	Canada	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	22,206	30,510	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	22,461	30,796	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	22,507	31,132	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	23,600	31,473	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	25,005	31,758	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	25,698	32,055	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	26,335	32,360	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	27,154	32,688	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	27,387	33,007	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	27,706	33,367	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	28,484	33,750	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	29,121	34,127	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	29,758	34,463	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	30,420	34,839	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	31,108	35,209	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	31,823	35,565	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	32,564	35,831	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	33,332	36,239	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	34,125	36,677	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	34,941	37,198	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	35,972	37,736	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	37,034	38,174	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	38,127	38,383	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	39,252	38,685	8,834

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.

Switzerland

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

No separate list is published for Afghanistan; the database as a whole is cited above.