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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Mauritania	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	2,437	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	2,501	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	2,566	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	2,632	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	2,699	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	2,768	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	2,838	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	2,909	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	2,981	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	3,055	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	3,129	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	3,205	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	3,282	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	3,359	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	3,438	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	3,517	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	3,597	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	3,677	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	3,759	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	3,840	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	3,942	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	4,045	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	4,150	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	4,259	83,811

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.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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