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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Zambia	Canada	Syria
Dec 31, 1999	10,327	30,510	15,930
Dec 31, 2000	10,649	30,796	16,329
Dec 31, 2001	10,980	31,132	16,730
Dec 31, 2002	11,290	31,473	17,132
Dec 31, 2003	11,593	31,758	17,534
Dec 31, 2004	11,907	32,055	17,942
Dec 31, 2005	12,243	32,360	18,423
Dec 31, 2006	12,612	32,688	19,252
Dec 31, 2007	13,005	33,007	20,493
Dec 31, 2008	13,412	33,367	21,221
Dec 31, 2009	13,822	33,750	21,542
Dec 31, 2010	14,255	34,127	22,050
Dec 31, 2011	14,709	34,463	22,458
Dec 31, 2012	15,165	34,839	22,258
Dec 31, 2013	15,631	35,209	20,901
Dec 31, 2014	16,121	35,565	19,318
Dec 31, 2015	16,624	35,831	18,272
Dec 31, 2016	17,140	36,239	17,669
Dec 31, 2017	17,674	36,677	17,327
Dec 31, 2018	18,222	37,198	17,601
Dec 31, 2019	18,780	37,736	18,440
Dec 31, 2020	19,349	38,174	19,241
Dec 31, 2021	19,928	38,383	20,226
Dec 31, 2022	20,485	38,685	20,985

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

Zambia

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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.

Syria

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