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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Canada	Oman
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	30,510	2,348
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	30,796	2,403
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	31,132	2,457
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	31,473	2,510
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	31,758	2,562
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	32,055	2,613
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	32,360	2,663
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	32,688	2,713
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	33,007	2,764
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	33,367	2,816
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	33,750	2,871
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	34,127	2,928
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	34,463	2,986
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	34,839	3,047
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	35,209	3,110
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	35,565	3,174
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	35,831	3,240
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	36,239	3,307
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	36,677	3,375
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	37,198	3,444
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	37,736	3,512
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	38,174	3,582
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	38,383	3,651
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	38,685	3,696

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.

No separate list is published for Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.