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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Paraguay	Mexico
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	5,366	97,242
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	5,473	98,403
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	5,579	99,599
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	5,683	100,863
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	5,786	102,132
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	5,886	103,334
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	5,984	104,508
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	6,080	105,738
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	6,173	107,083
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	6,264	108,554
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	6,352	110,061
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	6,438	111,468
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	6,522	112,826
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	6,605	114,163
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	6,688	115,471
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	6,769	116,757
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	6,850	118,017
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	6,930	117,444
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	7,012	118,799
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	7,095	120,289
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	7,179	121,872
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	7,263	123,260
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	7,348	124,462
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	7,432	125,247

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 Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.