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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Senegal	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	10,070	433
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	10,305	438
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	10,576	443
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	10,864	448
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	11,172	454
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	11,498	460
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	11,839	467
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	12,204	474
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	12,584	482
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	12,978	491
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	13,382	500
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	13,794	509
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	14,226	521
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	14,668	533
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	15,121	547
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	15,589	560
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	16,066	571
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	16,549	586
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	17,044	599
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	17,535	610
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	18,021	623
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	18,518	633
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	19,016	643
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	19,512	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.

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