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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Iceland	Kuwait
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	277	1,926
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	281	1,982
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	285	2,038
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	288	2,094
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	289	2,151
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	293	2,208
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	296	2,268
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	304	2,329
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	311	2,388
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	319	2,446
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	319	2,502
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	318	2,556
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	319	2,609
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	321	2,660
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	324	2,710
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	327	2,757
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	331	2,804
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	335	2,848
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	343	2,891
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	353	2,933
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	361	2,972
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	366	3,011
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	372	3,048
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	380	3,061

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.

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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