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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Congo - Kinshasa	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	51,181	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	52,782	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	54,453	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	56,170	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	57,860	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	59,599	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	61,474	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	63,479	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	65,590	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	67,800	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	70,114	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	72,550	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	75,138	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	77,792	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	80,534	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	83,368	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	86,229	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	89,193	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	92,209	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	95,232	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	98,320	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	101,499	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	104,767	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	108,171	124,762

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.

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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