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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Canada	Azerbaijan
Dec 31, 1999	70	30,510	8,056
Dec 31, 2000	71	30,796	8,127
Dec 31, 2001	71	31,132	8,194
Dec 31, 2002	72	31,473	8,257
Dec 31, 2003	72	31,758	8,319
Dec 31, 2004	72	32,055	8,391
Dec 31, 2005	72	32,360	8,475
Dec 31, 2006	72	32,688	8,565
Dec 31, 2007	72	33,007	8,657
Dec 31, 2008	73	33,367	8,750
Dec 31, 2009	73	33,750	8,842
Dec 31, 2010	73	34,127	8,933
Dec 31, 2011	73	34,463	9,025
Dec 31, 2012	73	34,839	9,117
Dec 31, 2013	73	35,209	9,210
Dec 31, 2014	73	35,565	9,302
Dec 31, 2015	74	35,831	9,393
Dec 31, 2016	74	36,239	9,481
Dec 31, 2017	74	36,677	9,567
Dec 31, 2018	74	37,198	9,649
Dec 31, 2019	75	37,736	9,727
Dec 31, 2020	75	38,174	9,802
Dec 31, 2021	76	38,383	9,874
Dec 31, 2022	76	38,685	9,918

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 Dominica, Azerbaijan; the database as a whole is cited above.