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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	Luxembourg	Canada	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	433	30,510	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	438	30,796	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	443	31,132	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	448	31,473	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	454	31,758	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	460	32,055	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	467	32,360	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	474	32,688	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	482	33,007	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	491	33,367	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	500	33,750	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	509	34,127	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	521	34,463	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	533	34,839	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	547	35,209	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	560	35,565	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	571	35,831	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	586	36,239	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	599	36,677	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	610	37,198	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	623	37,736	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	633	38,174	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	643	38,383	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	651	38,685	10,200

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.

Portugal

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

No separate list is published for Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.