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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Switzerland	Seychelles
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	7,258	78
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	7,296	79
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	7,332	80
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	7,384	81
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	7,438	82
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	7,488	83
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	7,532	84
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	7,579	85
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	7,647	86
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	7,738	87
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	7,825	87
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	7,884	88
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	7,959	89
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	8,044	90
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	8,137	91
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	8,237	92
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	8,332	92
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	8,423	93
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	8,502	94
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	8,565	95
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	8,626	96
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	8,689	97
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	8,756	98
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	8,834	98

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 Seychelles; the database as a whole is cited above.