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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Russia	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	147,218	433
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	146,600	438
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	145,980	443
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	145,310	448
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	144,652	454
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	144,071	460
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	143,522	467
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	143,053	474
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	142,809	482
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	142,746	491
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	142,789	500
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	142,853	509
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	142,964	521
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	143,205	533
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	143,510	547
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	146,094	560
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	146,410	571
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	146,678	586
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	146,846	599
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	146,834	610
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	146,768	623
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	146,463	633
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	145,849	643
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	146,693	651

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.

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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