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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Canada	Hong Kong SAR China
Dec 31, 1999	387	30,510	6,587
Dec 31, 2000	390	30,796	6,646
Dec 31, 2001	393	31,132	6,695
Dec 31, 2002	396	31,473	6,725
Dec 31, 2003	398	31,758	6,712
Dec 31, 2004	401	32,055	6,765
Dec 31, 2005	404	32,360	6,794
Dec 31, 2006	405	32,688	6,838
Dec 31, 2007	406	33,007	6,897
Dec 31, 2008	409	33,367	6,938
Dec 31, 2009	412	33,750	6,953
Dec 31, 2010	414	34,127	7,004
Dec 31, 2011	416	34,463	7,052
Dec 31, 2012	420	34,839	7,130
Dec 31, 2013	426	35,209	7,159
Dec 31, 2014	435	35,565	7,209
Dec 31, 2015	445	35,831	7,271
Dec 31, 2016	455	36,239	7,316
Dec 31, 2017	468	36,677	7,372
Dec 31, 2018	485	37,198	7,432
Dec 31, 2019	504	37,736	7,487
Dec 31, 2020	516	38,174	7,460
Dec 31, 2021	518	38,383	7,392
Dec 31, 2022	530	38,685	7,387

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.

No separate list is published for Malta, Hong Kong SAR China; the database as a whole is cited above.