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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Congo - Kinshasa	Croatia
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	51,181	4,377
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	52,782	4,334
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	54,453	4,171
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	56,170	4,176
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	57,860	4,176
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	59,599	4,179
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	61,474	4,182
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	63,479	4,183
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	65,590	4,183
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	67,800	4,181
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	70,114	4,177
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	72,550	4,167
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	75,138	4,154
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	77,792	4,141
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	80,534	4,126
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	83,368	4,109
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	86,229	4,081
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	89,193	4,047
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	92,209	4,006
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	95,232	3,968
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	98,320	3,945
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	101,499	3,925
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	104,767	3,839
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	108,171	3,790

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.

Croatia

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

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