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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Singapore	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	3,959	387
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	4,028	390
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	4,138	393
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	4,176	396
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	4,115	398
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	4,167	401
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	4,266	404
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	4,401	405
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	4,589	406
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	4,839	409
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	4,988	412
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	5,077	414
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	5,184	416
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	5,312	420
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	5,399	426
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	5,470	435
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	5,535	445
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	5,607	455
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	5,612	468
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	5,639	485
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	5,704	504
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	5,686	516
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	5,716	518
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	5,750	530

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.

Singapore

1900–1959: Sugimoto, I. (2011), Economic growth of Singapore in the twentieth century: historical GDP estimates and empirical investigations, Economic Growth Centre Research Monograph ser., 2, http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/7858.html (accessed on 30 Jan. 2013).

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