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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Canada	Indonesia
Dec 31, 1999	387	30,510	208,105
Dec 31, 2000	390	30,796	211,408
Dec 31, 2001	393	31,132	214,475
Dec 31, 2002	396	31,473	217,516
Dec 31, 2003	398	31,758	220,549
Dec 31, 2004	401	32,055	224,473
Dec 31, 2005	404	32,360	227,534
Dec 31, 2006	405	32,688	230,739
Dec 31, 2007	406	33,007	233,918
Dec 31, 2008	409	33,367	237,056
Dec 31, 2009	412	33,750	240,140
Dec 31, 2010	414	34,127	243,171
Dec 31, 2011	416	34,463	246,150
Dec 31, 2012	420	34,839	249,086
Dec 31, 2013	426	35,209	251,947
Dec 31, 2014	435	35,565	254,702
Dec 31, 2015	445	35,831	257,351
Dec 31, 2016	455	36,239	259,906
Dec 31, 2017	468	36,677	262,379
Dec 31, 2018	485	37,198	264,789
Dec 31, 2019	504	37,736	267,142
Dec 31, 2020	516	38,174	269,437
Dec 31, 2021	518	38,383	271,674
Dec 31, 2022	530	38,685	273,409

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.

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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