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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	United States	Iran
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	279,040	64,704
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	282,162	65,411
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	284,969	66,167
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	287,625	66,689
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	290,108	67,807
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	292,805	68,480
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	295,517	69,325
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	298,380	70,158
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	301,231	71,040
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	304,094	71,942
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	306,772	72,888
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	309,327	73,826
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	311,583	74,625
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	313,878	75,446
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	316,060	76,418
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	318,386	77,521
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	320,739	78,652
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	323,072	79,700
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	325,122	80,725
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	326,838	81,721
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	328,330	82,685
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	331,512	83,614
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	332,032	84,505
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	333,288	85,108

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.

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

Iran

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828