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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Austria	São Tomé & Príncipe
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	8,039	138
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	8,059	141
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	8,090	144
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	8,130	147
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	8,166	151
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	8,217	154
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	8,274	158
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	8,317	161
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	8,344	165
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	8,370	168
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	8,390	172
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	8,410	176
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	8,438	180
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	8,476	183
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	8,527	187
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	8,594	190
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	8,680	194
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	8,791	198
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	8,847	201
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	8,890	204
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	8,930	208
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	8,969	212
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	9,004	216
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	9,107	220

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.

Austria

1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

No separate list is published for São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.