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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Uganda	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	23,408	387
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	24,195	390
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	24,992	393
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	25,846	396
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	26,661	398
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	27,414	401
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	28,200	404
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	29,021	405
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	29,846	406
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	30,647	409
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	31,469	412
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	32,343	414
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	33,257	416
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	34,234	420
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	35,271	426
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	36,419	435
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	37,673	445
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	39,157	455
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	40,879	468
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	42,329	485
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	43,639	504
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	45,120	516
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	46,645	518
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	48,065	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.

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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