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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Liberia	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	2,741	387
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	2,847	390
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	2,917	393
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	2,978	396
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	2,983	398
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	3,005	401
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	3,138	404
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	3,311	405
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	3,469	406
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	3,603	409
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	3,708	412
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	3,817	414
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	3,984	416
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	4,141	420
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	4,244	426
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	4,348	435
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	4,460	445
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	4,576	455
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	4,689	468
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	4,810	485
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	4,904	504
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	5,005	516
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	5,109	518
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	5,216	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.

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.

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