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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Indonesia	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	208,105	433
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	211,408	438
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	214,475	443
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	217,516	448
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	220,549	454
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	224,473	460
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	227,534	467
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	230,739	474
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	233,918	482
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	237,056	491
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	240,140	500
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	243,171	509
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	246,150	521
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	249,086	533
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	251,947	547
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	254,702	560
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	257,351	571
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	259,906	586
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	262,379	599
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	264,789	610
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	267,142	623
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	269,437	633
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	271,674	643
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	273,409	651

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.

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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