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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Iraq	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	22,076	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	22,748	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	23,440	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	24,212	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	24,979	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	25,726	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	26,531	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	26,706	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	26,429	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	26,969	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	28,024	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	28,956	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	29,974	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	31,321	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	32,779	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	33,857	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	34,674	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	35,437	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	36,200	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	37,015	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	37,846	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	38,673	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	39,491	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	40,364	108,171

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.

Iraq

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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