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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Morocco	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	28,400	433
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	28,744	438
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	29,094	443
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	29,447	448
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	29,806	454
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	30,169	460
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	30,552	467
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	30,953	474
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	31,354	482
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	31,754	491
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	32,154	500
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	32,553	509
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	32,951	521
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	33,346	533
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	33,737	547
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	34,124	560
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	34,511	571
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	34,898	586
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	35,279	599
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	35,653	610
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	36,018	623
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	36,375	633
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	36,723	643
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	37,101	651

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