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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Mali	Nepal
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	10,596	23,087
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	10,833	23,487
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	10,890	23,887
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	11,007	24,273
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	11,307	24,645
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	11,579	24,989
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	11,804	25,255
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	12,043	25,484
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	12,337	25,732
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	12,657	25,998
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	12,986	26,298
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	13,325	26,664
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	13,679	27,081
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	14,040	27,505
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	14,412	27,917
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	14,803	28,311
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	15,210	28,678
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	15,629	29,034
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	16,060	29,384
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	16,507	29,718
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	16,967	30,057
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	17,442	30,595
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	17,930	31,311
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	18,494	31,845

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 Mali, Nepal; the database as a whole is cited above.