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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Honduras	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	6,198	387
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	6,367	390
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	6,535	393
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	6,698	396
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	6,863	398
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	7,028	401
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	7,194	404
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	7,359	405
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	7,522	406
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	7,682	409
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	7,839	412
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	7,991	414
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	8,141	416
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	8,288	420
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	8,429	426
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	8,546	435
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	8,661	445
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	8,770	455
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	8,878	468
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	9,002	485
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	9,154	504
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	9,304	516
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	9,448	518
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	9,590	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.

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