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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Laos	Lesotho
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	5,286	1,908
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	5,397	1,916
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	5,499	1,922
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	5,578	1,926
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	5,654	1,926
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	5,746	1,925
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	5,836	1,922
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	5,931	1,919
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	6,035	1,917
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	6,145	1,915
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	6,257	1,916
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	6,368	1,920
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	6,477	1,925
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	6,586	1,930
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	6,695	1,936
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	6,804	1,942
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	6,912	1,948
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	7,019	1,953
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	7,127	1,958
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	7,234	1,962
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	7,343	1,987
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	7,452	2,013
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	7,560	2,037
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	7,666	2,059

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.

No separate list is published for Laos, Lesotho; the database as a whole is cited above.