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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Congo - Kinshasa	Bulgaria
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	51,181	8,091
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	52,782	8,052
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	54,453	7,798
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	56,170	7,755
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	57,860	7,710
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	59,599	7,668
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	61,474	7,628
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	63,479	7,587
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	65,590	7,549
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	67,800	7,513
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	70,114	7,475
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	72,550	7,425
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	75,138	7,242
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	77,792	7,200
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	80,534	7,160
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	83,368	7,119
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	86,229	7,074
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	89,193	7,024
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	92,209	6,973
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	95,232	6,923
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	98,320	6,874
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	101,499	6,833
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	104,767	6,778
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	108,171	6,720

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.

Bulgaria

1892-1945: Ivanov, M. (2006). “Bulgarian National Income between 1892 and 1924,” Bulgarian National Discussion Papers DP/54/2006

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.