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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Estonia	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	1,378	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	1,400	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	1,391	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	1,382	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	1,374	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	1,365	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	1,357	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	1,349	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	1,341	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	1,337	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	1,334	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	1,332	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	1,328	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	1,324	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	1,319	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	1,314	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	1,312	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	1,314	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	1,314	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	1,318	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	1,323	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	1,327	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	1,329	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	1,330	38,685

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 Estonia; the database as a whole is cited above.