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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Burkina Faso	Afghanistan
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	11,075	22,206
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	11,405	22,461
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	11,828	22,507
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	12,380	23,600
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	12,829	25,005
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	13,178	25,698
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	13,540	26,335
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	13,917	27,154
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	14,309	27,387
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	14,722	27,706
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	15,152	28,484
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	15,600	29,121
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	16,064	29,758
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	16,563	30,420
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	17,072	31,108
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	17,575	31,823
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	18,094	32,564
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	18,621	33,332
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	19,157	34,125
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	19,698	34,941
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	20,242	35,972
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	20,788	37,034
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	21,336	38,127
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	21,889	39,252

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

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 Burkina Faso, Afghanistan; the database as a whole is cited above.