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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Puerto Rico	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	3,800	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	3,811	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	3,819	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	3,824	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	3,826	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	3,827	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	3,822	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	3,805	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	3,783	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	3,761	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	3,741	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	3,722	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	3,679	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	3,636	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	3,589	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	3,534	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	3,473	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	3,411	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	3,352	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	3,295	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	3,268	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	3,247	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	3,232	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	3,228	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 Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.