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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Canada	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	30,510	387
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	30,796	390
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	31,132	393
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	31,473	396
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	31,758	398
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	32,055	401
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	32,360	404
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	32,688	405
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	33,007	406
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	33,367	409
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	33,750	412
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	34,127	414
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	34,463	416
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	34,839	420
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	35,209	426
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	35,565	435
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	35,831	445
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	36,239	455
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	36,677	468
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	37,198	485
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	37,736	504
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	38,174	516
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	38,383	518
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	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

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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.