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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	Senegal	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	70	10,070	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	71	10,305	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	71	10,576	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	72	10,864	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	72	11,172	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	72	11,498	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	72	11,839	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	72	12,204	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	72	12,584	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	73	12,978	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	73	13,382	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	73	13,794	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	73	14,226	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	73	14,668	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	73	15,121	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	73	15,589	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	74	16,066	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	74	16,549	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	74	17,044	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	74	17,535	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	75	18,021	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	75	18,518	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	76	19,016	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	76	19,512	38,685

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, Senegal; the database as a whole is cited above.