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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Luxembourg	Dominica
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	433	70
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	438	71
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	443	71
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	448	72
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	454	72
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	460	72
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	467	72
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	474	72
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	482	72
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	491	73
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	500	73
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	509	73
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	521	73
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	533	73
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	547	73
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	560	73
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	571	74
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	586	74
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	599	74
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	610	74
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	623	75
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	633	75
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	643	76
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	651	76

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 Luxembourg, Dominica; the database as a whole is cited above.