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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Canada	Brazil
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	30,510	174,320
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	30,796	176,902
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	31,132	179,389
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	31,473	181,721
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	31,758	183,970
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	32,055	186,165
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	32,360	188,330
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	32,688	190,438
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	33,007	192,450
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	33,367	194,458
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	33,750	196,464
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	34,127	198,408
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	34,463	200,152
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	34,839	201,894
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	35,209	203,614
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	35,565	205,358
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	35,831	207,148
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	36,239	208,859
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	36,677	210,537
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	37,198	212,258
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	37,736	213,940
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	38,174	215,577
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	38,383	216,720
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	38,685	217,718

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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.

Brazil

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1850–1899: 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
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;