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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Thailand	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	59,748	387
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	60,165	390
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	60,746	393
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	61,323	396
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	61,884	398
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	62,425	401
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	62,956	404
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	63,467	405
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	63,937	406
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	64,381	409
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	64,804	412
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	65,208	414
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	65,599	416
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	65,970	420
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	66,332	426
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	66,673	435
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	66,975	445
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	67,250	455
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	67,506	468
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	67,750	485
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	67,975	504
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	68,180	516
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	68,366	518
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	68,457	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.

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 Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.