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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominican Republic	Canada	Congo - Brazzaville
Dec 31, 1999	8,175	30,510	2,886
Dec 31, 2000	8,301	30,796	2,999
Dec 31, 2001	8,427	31,132	3,113
Dec 31, 2002	8,553	31,473	3,181
Dec 31, 2003	8,678	31,758	3,274
Dec 31, 2004	8,801	32,055	3,400
Dec 31, 2005	8,924	32,360	3,543
Dec 31, 2006	9,044	32,688	3,702
Dec 31, 2007	9,164	33,007	3,859
Dec 31, 2008	9,281	33,367	3,989
Dec 31, 2009	9,398	33,750	4,146
Dec 31, 2010	9,512	34,127	4,324
Dec 31, 2011	9,627	34,463	4,468
Dec 31, 2012	9,742	34,839	4,581
Dec 31, 2013	9,855	35,209	4,667
Dec 31, 2014	9,965	35,565	4,757
Dec 31, 2015	10,072	35,831	4,851
Dec 31, 2016	10,177	36,239	4,951
Dec 31, 2017	10,281	36,677	5,055
Dec 31, 2018	10,385	37,198	5,164
Dec 31, 2019	10,487	37,736	5,279
Dec 31, 2020	10,587	38,174	5,400
Dec 31, 2021	10,686	38,383	5,527
Dec 31, 2022	10,793	38,685	5,655

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.

No separate list is published for Dominican Republic, Congo - Brazzaville; the database as a whole is cited above.