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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Nigeria	Canada	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	121,649	30,510	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	125,014	30,796	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	128,513	31,132	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	132,165	31,473	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	135,971	31,758	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	139,900	32,055	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	143,914	32,360	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	148,019	32,688	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	152,195	33,007	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	156,434	33,367	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	160,751	33,750	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	165,142	34,127	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	169,607	34,463	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	174,142	34,839	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	178,737	35,209	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	183,362	35,565	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	187,979	35,831	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	192,594	36,239	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	197,417	36,677	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	202,498	37,198	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	207,699	37,736	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	213,021	38,174	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	218,473	38,383	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	223,735	38,685	3,570

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

Nigeria

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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 Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.