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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	South Korea	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	46,617	152
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	47,008	153
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	47,370	154
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	47,645	155
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	47,892	156
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	48,083	157
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	48,185	157
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	48,438	158
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	48,684	159
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	49,055	160
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	49,308	160
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	49,554	161
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	49,937	162
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	50,200	162
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	50,429	163
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	50,747	163
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	51,015	164
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	51,218	164
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	51,362	165
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	51,585	166
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	51,765	166
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	51,836	167
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	51,745	167
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	51,731	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.

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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