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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	France	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	277	60,396	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	281	60,811	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	285	61,255	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	288	61,703	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	289	62,141	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	293	62,600	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	296	63,073	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	304	63,513	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	311	63,906	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	319	64,264	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	319	64,594	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	318	64,913	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	319	65,231	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	321	65,552	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	324	65,891	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	327	66,212	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	331	66,480	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	335	66,730	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	343	67,015	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	353	67,347	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	361	67,660	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	366	67,901	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	372	68,114	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	380	68,387	38,685

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.

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.