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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	United States	Ghana
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	279,040	19,327
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	282,162	19,792
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	284,969	20,280
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	287,625	20,806
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	290,108	21,350
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	292,805	21,900
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	295,517	22,469
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	298,380	23,058
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	301,231	23,661
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	304,094	24,270
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	306,772	24,899
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	309,327	25,559
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	311,583	26,244
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	313,878	26,945
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	316,060	27,664
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	318,386	28,405
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	320,739	29,146
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	323,072	29,879
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	325,122	30,617
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	326,838	31,362
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	328,330	32,111
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	331,512	32,864
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	332,032	33,622
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	333,288	34,280

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.

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

Ghana

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