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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Canada	Hong Kong SAR China
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	30,510	6,587
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	30,796	6,646
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	31,132	6,695
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	31,473	6,725
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	31,758	6,712
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	32,055	6,765
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	32,360	6,794
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	32,688	6,838
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	33,007	6,897
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	33,367	6,938
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	33,750	6,953
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	34,127	7,004
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	34,463	7,052
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	34,839	7,130
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	35,209	7,159
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	35,565	7,209
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	35,831	7,271
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	36,239	7,316
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	36,677	7,372
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	37,198	7,432
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	37,736	7,487
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	38,174	7,460
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	38,383	7,392
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	38,685	7,387

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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.

No separate list is published for Hong Kong SAR China; the database as a whole is cited above.