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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Sri Lanka	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	19,354	387
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	19,610	390
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	19,838	393
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	20,060	396
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	20,297	398
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	20,529	401
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	20,703	404
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	20,917	405
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	21,120	406
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	21,315	409
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	21,503	412
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	21,713	414
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	21,918	416
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	22,120	420
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	22,320	426
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	22,517	435
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	22,711	445
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	22,899	455
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	23,080	468
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	23,254	485
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	23,420	504
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	23,579	516
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	23,732	518
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	23,796	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 Sri Lanka, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.