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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Italy	Canada	France
Dec 31, 1999	56,940	30,510	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	56,966	30,796	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	57,004	31,132	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	57,114	31,473	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	57,423	31,758	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	57,852	32,055	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	58,191	32,360	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	58,424	32,688	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	58,781	33,007	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	59,236	33,367	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	59,580	33,750	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	59,844	34,127	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	60,052	34,463	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	60,216	34,839	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	60,337	35,209	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	60,346	35,565	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	60,255	35,831	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	60,140	36,239	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	60,027	36,677	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	59,902	37,198	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	59,754	37,736	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	59,464	38,174	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	59,158	38,383	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	58,966	38,685	68,387

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

Italy

1451-1861: Chilosi, D., & Ciccarelli, C. (2023). Italy in the Great Divergence: What Can We Learn from Engel’s Law (SSRN Scholarly Paper 4514091).
1861-1871 (North Italy): Malanima, P. (2010), “The long decline of a leading economy: GDP in central and northern Italy, 1300–1913” European Review of Economic History 15 (2): 169–219.
1871-1990: Baffigi, A. (2011).”Italian National Accounts, 1861-2011”, Banca d’Italia Economic History Working Papers 18.

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.

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