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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	3,811	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	3,901	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	3,919	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	3,923	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	3,940	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	3,975	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	3,991	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	3,993	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	3,990	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	3,987	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	3,985	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	3,983	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	3,980	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	3,977	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	3,973	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	3,968	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	3,963	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	3,957	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	3,951	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	3,944	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	3,937	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	3,929	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	3,921	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	3,876	87,201

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

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

Türkiye

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.