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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Greece	Seychelles
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	10,618	78
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	10,662	79
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	10,718	80
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	10,757	81
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	10,783	82
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	10,809	83
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	10,841	84
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	10,874	85
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	10,901	86
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	10,930	87
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	10,959	87
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	10,973	88
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	10,957	89
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	10,898	90
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	10,819	91
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	10,747	92
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	10,677	92
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	10,633	93
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	10,612	94
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	10,590	95
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	10,579	96
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	10,556	97
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	10,499	98
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	10,437	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.

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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