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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Australia	Dominica	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	70	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	71	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	71	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	72	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	72	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	72	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	72	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	72	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	72	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	73	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	73	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	73	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	73	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	73	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	73	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	73	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	74	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	74	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	74	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	74	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	75	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	75	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	76	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	76	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

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

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 Dominica; the database as a whole is cited above.