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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Ecuador	Iceland
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	12,268	277
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	12,446	281
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	12,629	285
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	12,827	288
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	13,074	289
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	13,368	293
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	13,661	296
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	13,915	304
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	14,133	311
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	14,352	319
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	14,569	319
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	14,786	318
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	15,002	319
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	15,218	321
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	15,433	324
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	15,647	327
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	15,860	331
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	16,072	335
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	16,282	343
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	16,489	353
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	16,693	361
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	16,894	366
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	17,093	372
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	17,288	380

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.

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.