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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Netherlands	Canada	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	15,817	30,510	627
Dec 31, 2000	15,932	30,796	659
Dec 31, 2001	16,052	31,132	691
Dec 31, 2002	16,155	31,473	724
Dec 31, 2003	16,231	31,758	757
Dec 31, 2004	16,288	32,055	850
Dec 31, 2005	16,326	32,360	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	16,352	32,688	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	16,388	33,007	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	16,452	33,367	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	16,536	33,750	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	16,621	34,127	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	16,699	34,463	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	16,761	34,839	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	16,810	35,209	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	16,871	35,565	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	16,946	35,831	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	17,036	36,239	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	17,137	36,677	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	17,238	37,198	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	17,351	37,736	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	17,448	38,174	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	17,539	38,383	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	17,709	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

Netherlands

1348–1807 (Holland): Van Zanden, J. L. and van Leeuwen, B. (2012), ‘Persistent but not consistent: the growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807’, Explorations in Economic History, 49 (2012), pp. 119–30.
1807-1913: Smits, J.P., E. Horlings and J.L. van Zanden (2000). The Measurement of Gross National Product and its Components 1800-1913 (Groningen Growth and Development Centre Monograph series no 5).
1913-1950: C.A. van Bochove and T.A. Huitker, "Main National Accounting Series, 1900-1986", CBS Occasional Paper, No. 17, The Hague, 1987.

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.