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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Egypt	Romania	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	66,001	22,414	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	67,377	22,262	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	68,790	22,106	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	70,269	21,931	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	71,785	21,828	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	73,298	21,704	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	74,832	21,571	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	76,432	21,443	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	78,140	21,129	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	79,945	20,779	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	81,840	20,607	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	83,844	20,485	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	85,969	20,385	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	88,198	20,296	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	90,566	20,224	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	93,009	20,151	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	95,432	20,055	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	97,882	19,938	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	100,303	19,823	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	102,617	19,713	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	104,816	19,622	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	106,893	19,496	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	108,871	19,351	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	110,593	19,266	38,685

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

Egypt

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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.