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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	Dominica	Canada	Oman	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	70	30,510	2,348	433
Dec 31, 2000	71	30,796	2,403	438
Dec 31, 2001	71	31,132	2,457	443
Dec 31, 2002	72	31,473	2,510	448
Dec 31, 2003	72	31,758	2,562	454
Dec 31, 2004	72	32,055	2,613	460
Dec 31, 2005	72	32,360	2,663	467
Dec 31, 2006	72	32,688	2,713	474
Dec 31, 2007	72	33,007	2,764	482
Dec 31, 2008	73	33,367	2,816	491
Dec 31, 2009	73	33,750	2,871	500
Dec 31, 2010	73	34,127	2,928	509
Dec 31, 2011	73	34,463	2,986	521
Dec 31, 2012	73	34,839	3,047	533
Dec 31, 2013	73	35,209	3,110	547
Dec 31, 2014	73	35,565	3,174	560
Dec 31, 2015	74	35,831	3,240	571
Dec 31, 2016	74	36,239	3,307	586
Dec 31, 2017	74	36,677	3,375	599
Dec 31, 2018	74	37,198	3,444	610
Dec 31, 2019	75	37,736	3,512	623
Dec 31, 2020	75	38,174	3,582	633
Dec 31, 2021	76	38,383	3,651	643
Dec 31, 2022	76	38,685	3,696	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.

All data sources

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, Oman, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.