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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Sweden	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	277	8,858	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	281	8,872	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	285	8,896	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	288	8,925	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	289	8,958	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	293	8,994	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	296	9,030	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	304	9,081	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	311	9,148	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	319	9,220	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	319	9,299	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	318	9,378	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	319	9,449	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	321	9,519	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	324	9,600	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	327	9,696	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	331	9,799	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	335	9,923	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	343	10,058	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	353	10,175	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	361	10,279	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	366	10,354	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	372	10,416	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	380	10,487	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.

Sweden

1300–1560: Krantz, O. (2017) “Swedish GDP 1300-1560 A Tentative Estimate” Lund Papers in Economic History: General Issues; No. 152.
1560–1950: Schön, L., and O. Krantz (2015) “New Swedish Historical National Accounts since the 16th Century in Constant and Current Prices” Lund Papers in Economic History no. 140

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.