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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Canada	Iceland	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	387	30,510	277	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	390	30,796	281	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	393	31,132	285	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	396	31,473	288	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	398	31,758	289	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	401	32,055	293	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	404	32,360	296	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	405	32,688	304	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	406	33,007	311	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	409	33,367	319	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	412	33,750	319	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	414	34,127	318	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	416	34,463	319	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	420	34,839	321	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	426	35,209	324	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	435	35,565	327	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	445	35,831	331	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	455	36,239	335	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	468	36,677	343	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	485	37,198	353	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	504	37,736	361	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	516	38,174	366	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	518	38,383	372	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	530	38,685	380	83,811

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.

All data sources

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.

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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