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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Mexico	Canada	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	97,242	30,510	627
Dec 31, 2000	98,403	30,796	659
Dec 31, 2001	99,599	31,132	691
Dec 31, 2002	100,863	31,473	724
Dec 31, 2003	102,132	31,758	757
Dec 31, 2004	103,334	32,055	850
Dec 31, 2005	104,508	32,360	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	105,738	32,688	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	107,083	33,007	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	108,554	33,367	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	110,061	33,750	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	111,468	34,127	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	112,826	34,463	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	114,163	34,839	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	115,471	35,209	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	116,757	35,565	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	118,017	35,831	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	117,444	36,239	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	118,799	36,677	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	120,289	37,198	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	121,872	37,736	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	123,260	38,174	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	124,462	38,383	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	125,247	38,685	2,559

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

Mexico

1550–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Prados de la Escosura, L., (2009), ‘Lost decades? Economic performance in post-independence Latin America’, Journal of Latin America Studies, 41, pp. 279–307. (updated data)
1870-1895: Bértola, L., & Ocampo, J. A. (2012). The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford University Press, Table A.2
1895–2003: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350

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 Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.