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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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

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