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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	France	Canada	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	60,396	30,510	387
Dec 31, 2000	60,811	30,796	390
Dec 31, 2001	61,255	31,132	393
Dec 31, 2002	61,703	31,473	396
Dec 31, 2003	62,141	31,758	398
Dec 31, 2004	62,600	32,055	401
Dec 31, 2005	63,073	32,360	404
Dec 31, 2006	63,513	32,688	405
Dec 31, 2007	63,906	33,007	406
Dec 31, 2008	64,264	33,367	409
Dec 31, 2009	64,594	33,750	412
Dec 31, 2010	64,913	34,127	414
Dec 31, 2011	65,231	34,463	416
Dec 31, 2012	65,552	34,839	420
Dec 31, 2013	65,891	35,209	426
Dec 31, 2014	66,212	35,565	435
Dec 31, 2015	66,480	35,831	445
Dec 31, 2016	66,730	36,239	455
Dec 31, 2017	67,015	36,677	468
Dec 31, 2018	67,347	37,198	485
Dec 31, 2019	67,660	37,736	504
Dec 31, 2020	67,901	38,174	516
Dec 31, 2021	68,114	38,383	518
Dec 31, 2022	68,387	38,685	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

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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 Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.