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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Hungary	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	277	10,244	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	281	10,218	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	285	10,194	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	288	10,165	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	289	10,136	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	293	10,114	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	296	10,094	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	304	10,078	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	311	10,062	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	319	10,045	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	319	10,029	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	318	10,007	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	319	9,978	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	321	9,927	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	324	9,900	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	327	9,873	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	331	9,850	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	335	9,821	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	343	9,794	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	353	9,782	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	361	9,778	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	366	9,757	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	372	9,716	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	380	9,690	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.

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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.