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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Sudan	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	26,168	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	26,771	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	27,387	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	28,017	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	28,662	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	29,321	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	29,996	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	30,686	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	31,393	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	32,137	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	33,078	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	33,891	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	34,568	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	35,293	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	36,093	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	37,058	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	38,165	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	39,294	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	40,512	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	41,764	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	42,952	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	44,121	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	45,290	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	46,498	68,457

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.

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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