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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Tanzania	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	32,912	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	33,953	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	34,974	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	36,021	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	37,100	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	38,167	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	39,262	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	40,387	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	41,557	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	42,741	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	43,889	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	45,132	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	46,531	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	47,965	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	49,437	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	50,965	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	52,604	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	54,336	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	56,062	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	57,765	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	59,465	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	61,191	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	62,944	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	64,835	38,685

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 Tanzania; the database as a whole is cited above.