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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Portugal	Canada	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	10,144	30,510	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	10,215	30,796	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	31,132	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	10,344	31,473	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	10,383	31,758	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	10,408	32,055	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	10,427	32,360	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	10,446	32,688	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	10,467	33,007	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	10,482	33,367	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	10,492	33,750	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	10,497	34,127	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	10,481	34,463	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	10,439	34,839	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	10,382	35,209	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	10,326	35,565	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	10,283	35,831	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	10,251	36,239	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	10,226	36,677	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	10,209	37,198	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	10,212	37,736	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	10,223	38,174	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	10,214	38,383	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	10,200	38,685	10,437

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

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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.

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995