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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Thailand	Comoros
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	59,748	531
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	60,165	545
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	60,746	559
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	61,323	574
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	61,884	590
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	62,425	606
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	62,956	623
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	63,467	640
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	63,937	657
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	64,381	674
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	64,804	690
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	65,208	706
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	65,599	722
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	65,970	737
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	66,332	752
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	66,673	767
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	66,975	781
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	67,250	795
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	67,506	808
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	67,750	821
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	67,975	837
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	68,180	853
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	68,366	869
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	68,457	885

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 Comoros; the database as a whole is cited above.