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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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

All data sources

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.