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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Turkmenistan	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	4,324	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	4,385	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	4,444	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	4,502	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	4,556	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	4,608	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	4,664	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	4,719	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	4,773	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	4,828	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	4,884	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	4,940	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	4,996	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	5,053	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	5,110	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	5,169	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	5,227	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	5,287	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	5,346	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	5,405	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	5,464	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	5,522	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	5,579	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	5,657	3,876

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.

All data sources

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

No separate list is published for Turkmenistan; the database as a whole is cited above.