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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Egypt	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	66,001	387
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	67,377	390
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	68,790	393
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	70,269	396
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	71,785	398
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	73,298	401
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	74,832	404
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	76,432	405
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	78,140	406
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	79,945	409
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	81,840	412
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	83,844	414
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	85,969	416
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	88,198	420
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	90,566	426
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	93,009	435
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	95,432	445
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	97,882	455
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	100,303	468
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	102,617	485
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	104,816	504
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	106,893	516
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	108,871	518
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	110,593	530

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.

Egypt

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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