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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Congo - Kinshasa	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	51,181	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	52,782	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	54,453	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	56,170	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	57,860	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	59,599	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	61,474	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	63,479	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	65,590	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	67,800	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	70,114	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	72,550	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	75,138	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	77,792	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	80,534	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	83,368	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	86,229	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	89,193	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	92,209	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	95,232	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	98,320	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	101,499	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	104,767	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	108,171	51,332

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.

Colombia

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)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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