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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Poland	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	38,358	152
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	38,344	153
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	38,339	154
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	38,320	155
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	38,283	156
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	38,268	157
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	38,249	157
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	38,220	158
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	38,204	159
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	38,204	160
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	38,572	160
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	38,606	161
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	38,615	162
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	38,623	162
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	38,591	163
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	38,573	163
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	38,544	164
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	38,516	164
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	38,511	165
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	38,502	166
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	38,475	166
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	38,443	167
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	38,250	167
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	37,914	167

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.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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