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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Netherlands	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	15,817	627
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	15,932	659
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	16,052	691
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	16,155	724
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	16,231	757
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	16,288	850
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	16,326	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	16,352	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	16,388	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	16,452	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	16,536	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	16,621	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	16,699	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	16,761	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	16,810	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	16,871	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	16,946	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	17,036	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	17,137	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	17,238	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	17,351	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	17,448	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	17,539	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	17,709	2,559

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.

Netherlands

1348–1807 (Holland): Van Zanden, J. L. and van Leeuwen, B. (2012), ‘Persistent but not consistent: the growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807’, Explorations in Economic History, 49 (2012), pp. 119–30.
1807-1913: Smits, J.P., E. Horlings and J.L. van Zanden (2000). The Measurement of Gross National Product and its Components 1800-1913 (Groningen Growth and Development Centre Monograph series no 5).
1913-1950: C.A. van Bochove and T.A. Huitker, "Main National Accounting Series, 1900-1986", CBS Occasional Paper, No. 17, The Hague, 1987.

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