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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Oman	Ireland
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	2,348	3,757
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	2,403	3,807
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	2,457	3,866
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	2,510	3,934
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	2,562	4,000
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	2,613	4,070
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	2,663	4,163
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	2,713	4,273
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	2,764	4,403
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	2,816	4,499
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	2,871	4,542
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	2,928	4,563
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	2,986	4,581
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	3,047	4,600
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	3,110	4,623
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	3,174	4,655
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	3,240	4,699
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	3,307	4,752
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	3,375	4,805
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	3,444	4,864
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	3,512	4,930
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	3,582	4,983
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	3,651	5,022
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	3,696	5,118

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.

Ireland

1820, 1870, 1913: MPD 2013, Bolt and Van Zanden, 2014, The Maddison Project: collaborative research on historical national accounts. The Economic History Review, 67(3), 627–651
1913-1926: P. Deane (1968), and Feinstein, 1972
1926-1950: K.A. Kennedy, Productivity and Industrial Growth: The Irish Experience, Oxford University Press, 1971, p. 3.

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