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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Trinidad & Tobago	Canada	Palestinian Territories
Dec 31, 1999	1,301	30,510	2,996
Dec 31, 2000	1,303	30,796	3,075
Dec 31, 2001	1,308	31,132	3,155
Dec 31, 2002	1,314	31,473	3,235
Dec 31, 2003	1,320	31,758	3,315
Dec 31, 2004	1,326	32,055	3,396
Dec 31, 2005	1,332	32,360	3,478
Dec 31, 2006	1,338	32,688	3,559
Dec 31, 2007	1,344	33,007	3,642
Dec 31, 2008	1,352	33,367	3,727
Dec 31, 2009	1,359	33,750	3,817
Dec 31, 2010	1,365	34,127	3,907
Dec 31, 2011	1,372	34,463	3,997
Dec 31, 2012	1,379	34,839	4,088
Dec 31, 2013	1,386	35,209	4,178
Dec 31, 2014	1,392	35,565	4,269
Dec 31, 2015	1,399	35,831	4,359
Dec 31, 2016	1,405	36,239	4,451
Dec 31, 2017	1,411	36,677	4,533
Dec 31, 2018	1,436	37,198	4,615
Dec 31, 2019	1,452	37,736	4,715
Dec 31, 2020	1,448	38,174	4,820
Dec 31, 2021	1,450	38,383	4,930
Dec 31, 2022	1,456	38,685	5,042

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.

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