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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	United States	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	279,040	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	282,162	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	284,969	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	287,625	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	290,108	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	292,805	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	295,517	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	298,380	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	301,231	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	304,094	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	306,772	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	309,327	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	311,583	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	313,878	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	316,060	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	318,386	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	320,739	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	323,072	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	325,122	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	326,838	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	328,330	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	331,512	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	332,032	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	333,288	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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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.