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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Canada	Yemen	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	30,510	16,728	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	30,796	17,236	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	31,132	17,762	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	31,473	18,310	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	31,758	18,855	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	32,055	19,410	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	32,360	20,000	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	32,688	20,611	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	33,007	21,236	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	33,367	21,878	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	33,750	22,533	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	34,127	23,195	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	34,463	23,880	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	34,839	24,594	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	35,209	25,311	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	35,565	26,020	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	35,831	26,698	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	36,239	27,347	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	36,677	27,985	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	37,198	28,608	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	37,736	29,216	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	38,174	29,811	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	38,383	30,399	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	38,685	31,058	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.

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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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

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