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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Canada	United Kingdom
Dec 31, 1999	277	30,510	58,946
Dec 31, 2000	281	30,796	59,149
Dec 31, 2001	285	31,132	59,377
Dec 31, 2002	288	31,473	59,631
Dec 31, 2003	289	31,758	59,903
Dec 31, 2004	293	32,055	60,217
Dec 31, 2005	296	32,360	60,682
Dec 31, 2006	304	32,688	61,098
Dec 31, 2007	311	33,007	61,593
Dec 31, 2008	319	33,367	62,100
Dec 31, 2009	319	33,750	62,539
Dec 31, 2010	318	34,127	63,040
Dec 31, 2011	319	34,463	63,567
Dec 31, 2012	321	34,839	63,989
Dec 31, 2013	324	35,209	64,392
Dec 31, 2014	327	35,565	64,885
Dec 31, 2015	331	35,831	65,400
Dec 31, 2016	335	36,239	65,941
Dec 31, 2017	343	36,677	66,335
Dec 31, 2018	353	37,198	66,732
Dec 31, 2019	361	37,736	67,095
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,174	67,380
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,383	67,651
Dec 31, 2022	380	38,685	68,093

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.

United Kingdom

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
1252–1700 (England): Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1700–1870: Broadberry, S.N., B. Campbell, A. Klein, M. Overton and B. van Leeuwen (2015), British Economic Growth 1270-1870 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1870-1950: C.H. Feinstein, National Income Expenditure and Output of the United Kingdom 1855-1965, Cambridge, 1972