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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Congo - Kinshasa	Kenya
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	51,181	30,192
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	52,782	31,025
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	54,453	31,919
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	56,170	32,865
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	57,860	33,846
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	59,599	34,880
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	61,474	35,961
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	63,479	37,093
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	65,590	38,248
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	67,800	39,441
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	70,114	40,668
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	72,550	41,900
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	75,138	43,198
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	77,792	44,470
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	80,534	45,639
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	83,368	46,808
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	86,229	47,983
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	89,193	49,095
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	92,209	50,201
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	95,232	51,357
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	98,320	52,522
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	101,499	53,691
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	104,767	54,867
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	108,171	55,924

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.

Kenya

1904-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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