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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Finland	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	5,166	152
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	5,176	153
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	5,188	154
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	5,201	155
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	5,213	156
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	5,228	157
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	5,246	157
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	5,266	158
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	5,289	159
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	5,313	160
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	5,339	160
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	5,363	161
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	5,388	162
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	5,414	162
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	5,439	163
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	5,463	163
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	5,481	164
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	5,495	164
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	5,508	165
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	5,516	166
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	5,522	166
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	5,531	167
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	5,542	167
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	5,556	167

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.

Finland

1600–1860: Eloranta, J., Voutilainen, M. and Nummela, I. (2016). “Estimating Finnish Economic Growth Before 1860” mimeo.
1860-1960: R. Hjerppe, The Finnish Economy 1860-1985: Growth and Structural Change, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 1989, pp. 198-200.

No separate list is published for St. Lucia; the database as a whole is cited above.