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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Canada	North Macedonia
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	30,510	2,006
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	30,796	2,017
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	31,132	2,026
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	31,473	2,011
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	31,758	2,018
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	32,055	2,024
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	32,360	2,028
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	32,688	2,031
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	33,007	2,035
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	33,367	2,038
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	33,750	2,042
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	34,127	2,046
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	34,463	2,049
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	34,839	2,052
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	35,209	2,055
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	35,565	2,058
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	35,831	2,061
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	36,239	2,063
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	36,677	2,065
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	37,198	2,067
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	37,736	2,068
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	38,174	2,065
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	38,383	2,057
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	38,685	2,048

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.

North Macedonia

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