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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Paraguay	Sri Lanka
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	5,366	19,354
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	5,473	19,610
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	5,579	19,838
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	5,683	20,060
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	5,786	20,297
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	5,886	20,529
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	5,984	20,703
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	6,080	20,917
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	6,173	21,120
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	6,264	21,315
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	6,352	21,503
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	6,438	21,713
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	6,522	21,918
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	6,605	22,120
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	6,688	22,320
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	6,769	22,517
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	6,850	22,711
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	6,930	22,899
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	7,012	23,080
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	7,095	23,254
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	7,179	23,420
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	7,263	23,579
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	7,348	23,732
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	7,432	23,796

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 Paraguay, Sri Lanka; the database as a whole is cited above.