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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Canada	France
Dec 31, 1999	387	30,510	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	390	30,796	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	393	31,132	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	396	31,473	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	398	31,758	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	401	32,055	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	404	32,360	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	405	32,688	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	406	33,007	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	409	33,367	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	412	33,750	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	414	34,127	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	416	34,463	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	420	34,839	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	426	35,209	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	435	35,565	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	445	35,831	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	455	36,239	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	468	36,677	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	485	37,198	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	504	37,736	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	516	38,174	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	518	38,383	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	530	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

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

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