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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Tunisia	Canada	Malawi
Dec 31, 1999	9,417	30,510	11,310
Dec 31, 2000	9,514	30,796	11,658
Dec 31, 2001	9,613	31,132	12,020
Dec 31, 2002	9,711	31,473	12,395
Dec 31, 2003	9,810	31,758	12,786
Dec 31, 2004	9,906	32,055	13,196
Dec 31, 2005	9,997	32,360	13,625
Dec 31, 2006	10,087	32,688	14,072
Dec 31, 2007	10,178	33,007	14,539
Dec 31, 2008	10,274	33,367	15,026
Dec 31, 2009	10,377	33,750	15,525
Dec 31, 2010	10,491	34,127	16,028
Dec 31, 2011	10,612	34,463	16,534
Dec 31, 2012	10,737	34,839	17,042
Dec 31, 2013	10,866	35,209	17,551
Dec 31, 2014	10,996	35,565	18,060
Dec 31, 2015	11,124	35,831	18,571
Dec 31, 2016	11,248	36,239	19,086
Dec 31, 2017	11,365	36,677	19,603
Dec 31, 2018	11,477	37,198	20,122
Dec 31, 2019	11,583	37,736	20,640
Dec 31, 2020	11,681	38,174	21,159
Dec 31, 2021	11,772	38,383	21,677
Dec 31, 2022	11,862	38,685	22,239

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.

Malawi

1904-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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