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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Mexico	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	97,242	273
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	98,403	274
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	99,599	275
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	100,863	276
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	102,132	278
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	103,334	279
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	104,508	280
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	105,738	281
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	107,083	282
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	108,554	283
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	110,061	285
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	111,468	286
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	112,826	287
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	114,163	288
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	115,471	289
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	116,757	290
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	118,017	291
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	117,444	291
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	118,799	292
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	120,289	293
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	121,872	294
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	123,260	294
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	124,462	295
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	125,247	295

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.

Mexico

1550–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Prados de la Escosura, L., (2009), ‘Lost decades? Economic performance in post-independence Latin America’, Journal of Latin America Studies, 41, pp. 279–307. (updated data)
1870-1895: Bértola, L., & Ocampo, J. A. (2012). The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford University Press, Table A.2
1895–2003: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350

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