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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	North Korea	Albania	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	22,594	3,085	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	22,785	3,065	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	22,977	3,047	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	23,165	3,038	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	23,330	3,026	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	23,477	3,014	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	23,621	2,998	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	23,764	2,979	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	23,908	2,957	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	24,051	2,934	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	24,191	2,915	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	24,326	2,900	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	24,457	2,892	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	24,589	2,888	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	24,720	2,882	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	24,852	2,876	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	24,983	2,868	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	25,115	2,863	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	25,248	2,861	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	25,381	2,854	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	25,497	2,842	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	25,608	2,825	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	25,711	2,799	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	25,808	2,787	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

North Korea

1911-1940: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing.
1990-2011: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing.

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.

No separate list is published for Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.