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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	Ecuador	Canada	Iceland	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	30,510	277	387
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	30,796	281	390
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	31,132	285	393
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	31,473	288	396
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	31,758	289	398
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	32,055	293	401
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	32,360	296	404
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	32,688	304	405
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	33,007	311	406
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	33,367	319	409
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	33,750	319	412
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	34,127	318	414
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	34,463	319	416
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	34,839	321	420
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	35,209	324	426
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	35,565	327	435
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	35,831	331	445
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	36,239	335	455
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	36,677	343	468
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	37,198	353	485
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	37,736	361	504
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	38,174	366	516
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	38,383	372	518
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	38,685	380	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.

All data sources

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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.

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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