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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Hong Kong SAR China	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	433	6,587	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	438	6,646	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	443	6,695	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	448	6,725	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	454	6,712	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	460	6,765	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	467	6,794	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	474	6,838	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	482	6,897	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	491	6,938	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	500	6,953	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	509	7,004	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	521	7,052	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	533	7,130	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	547	7,159	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	560	7,209	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	571	7,271	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	586	7,316	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	599	7,372	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	610	7,432	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	623	7,487	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	633	7,460	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	643	7,392	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	651	7,387	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 Luxembourg, Hong Kong SAR China; the database as a whole is cited above.