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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Indonesia	Canada	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	208,105	30,510	387
Dec 31, 2000	211,408	30,796	390
Dec 31, 2001	214,475	31,132	393
Dec 31, 2002	217,516	31,473	396
Dec 31, 2003	220,549	31,758	398
Dec 31, 2004	224,473	32,055	401
Dec 31, 2005	227,534	32,360	404
Dec 31, 2006	230,739	32,688	405
Dec 31, 2007	233,918	33,007	406
Dec 31, 2008	237,056	33,367	409
Dec 31, 2009	240,140	33,750	412
Dec 31, 2010	243,171	34,127	414
Dec 31, 2011	246,150	34,463	416
Dec 31, 2012	249,086	34,839	420
Dec 31, 2013	251,947	35,209	426
Dec 31, 2014	254,702	35,565	435
Dec 31, 2015	257,351	35,831	445
Dec 31, 2016	259,906	36,239	455
Dec 31, 2017	262,379	36,677	468
Dec 31, 2018	264,789	37,198	485
Dec 31, 2019	267,142	37,736	504
Dec 31, 2020	269,437	38,174	516
Dec 31, 2021	271,674	38,383	518
Dec 31, 2022	273,409	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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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.