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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Canada	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	277	30,510	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	281	30,796	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	285	31,132	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	288	31,473	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	289	31,758	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	293	32,055	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	296	32,360	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	304	32,688	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	311	33,007	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	319	33,367	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	319	33,750	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	318	34,127	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	319	34,463	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	321	34,839	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	324	35,209	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	327	35,565	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	331	35,831	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	335	36,239	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	343	36,677	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	353	37,198	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	361	37,736	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,174	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,383	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	380	38,685	6,291

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

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.

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 Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.