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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Oman	Philippines
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	2,348	79,346
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	2,403	81,131
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	2,457	83,023
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	2,510	84,876
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	2,562	86,697
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	2,613	88,568
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	2,663	90,418
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	2,713	92,253
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	2,764	94,098
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	2,816	95,923
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	2,871	97,627
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	2,928	99,317
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	2,986	100,999
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	3,047	102,618
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	3,110	104,299
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	3,174	106,076
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	3,240	107,868
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	3,307	109,493
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	3,375	111,094
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	3,444	112,843
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	3,512	114,636
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	3,582	117,026
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	3,651	119,473
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	3,696	121,234

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.

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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