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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Japan	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	126,512	152
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	126,755	153
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	127,056	154
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	127,324	155
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	127,558	156
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	127,658	157
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	127,679	157
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	127,762	158
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	127,904	159
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	127,969	160
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	127,958	160
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	127,967	161
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	127,755	162
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	127,476	162
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	127,257	163
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	127,186	163
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	127,034	164
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	126,857	164
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	126,631	165
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	126,368	166
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	126,092	166
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	125,634	167
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	125,427	167
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	124,762	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.

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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