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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Japan	Canada	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	126,512	30,510	433
Dec 31, 2000	126,755	30,796	438
Dec 31, 2001	127,056	31,132	443
Dec 31, 2002	127,324	31,473	448
Dec 31, 2003	127,558	31,758	454
Dec 31, 2004	127,658	32,055	460
Dec 31, 2005	127,679	32,360	467
Dec 31, 2006	127,762	32,688	474
Dec 31, 2007	127,904	33,007	482
Dec 31, 2008	127,969	33,367	491
Dec 31, 2009	127,958	33,750	500
Dec 31, 2010	127,967	34,127	509
Dec 31, 2011	127,755	34,463	521
Dec 31, 2012	127,476	34,839	533
Dec 31, 2013	127,257	35,209	547
Dec 31, 2014	127,186	35,565	560
Dec 31, 2015	127,034	35,831	571
Dec 31, 2016	126,857	36,239	586
Dec 31, 2017	126,631	36,677	599
Dec 31, 2018	126,368	37,198	610
Dec 31, 2019	126,092	37,736	623
Dec 31, 2020	125,634	38,174	633
Dec 31, 2021	125,427	38,383	643
Dec 31, 2022	124,762	38,685	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

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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 Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.