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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	São Tomé & Príncipe	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	138	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	141	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	144	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	147	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	151	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	154	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	158	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	161	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	165	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	168	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	172	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	176	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	180	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	183	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	187	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	190	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	194	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	198	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	201	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	204	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	208	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	212	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	216	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	220	10,437

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.

Greece

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

No separate list is published for São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.