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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Canada	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	30,510	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	30,796	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	31,132	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	31,473	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	31,758	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	32,055	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	32,360	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	32,688	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	33,007	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	33,367	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	33,750	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	34,127	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	34,463	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	34,839	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	35,209	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	35,565	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	35,831	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	36,239	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	36,677	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	37,198	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	37,736	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	38,174	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	38,383	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	38,685	51,332

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.

Colombia

1800 - 1870: 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)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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