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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Brazil	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	174,320	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	176,902	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	179,389	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	181,721	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	183,970	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	186,165	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	188,330	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	190,438	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	192,450	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	194,458	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	196,464	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	198,408	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	200,152	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	201,894	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	203,614	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	205,358	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	207,148	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	208,859	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	210,537	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	212,258	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	213,940	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	215,577	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	216,720	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	217,718	3,876

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.

Brazil

1800 - 1870: 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)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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