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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Sweden	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	8,858	433
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	8,872	438
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	8,896	443
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	8,925	448
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	8,958	454
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	8,994	460
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	9,030	467
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	9,081	474
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	9,148	482
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	9,220	491
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	9,299	500
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	9,378	509
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	9,449	521
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	9,519	533
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	9,600	547
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	9,696	560
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	9,799	571
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	9,923	586
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	10,058	599
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	10,175	610
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	10,279	623
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	10,354	633
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	10,416	643
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	10,487	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.

Sweden

1300–1560: Krantz, O. (2017) “Swedish GDP 1300-1560 A Tentative Estimate” Lund Papers in Economic History: General Issues; No. 152.
1560–1950: Schön, L., and O. Krantz (2015) “New Swedish Historical National Accounts since the 16th Century in Constant and Current Prices” Lund Papers in Economic History no. 140

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