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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Trinidad & Tobago	Canada	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	1,301	30,510	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	1,303	30,796	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	1,308	31,132	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	1,314	31,473	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	1,320	31,758	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	1,326	32,055	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	1,332	32,360	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	1,338	32,688	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	1,344	33,007	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	1,352	33,367	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	1,359	33,750	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	1,365	34,127	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	1,372	34,463	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	1,379	34,839	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	1,386	35,209	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	1,392	35,565	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	1,399	35,831	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	1,405	36,239	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	1,411	36,677	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	1,436	37,198	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	1,452	37,736	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	1,448	38,174	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	1,450	38,383	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	1,456	38,685	4,713

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.

Lebanon

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

No separate list is published for Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.