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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ghana	Congo - Kinshasa	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	19,327	51,181	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	19,792	52,782	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	20,280	54,453	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	20,806	56,170	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	21,350	57,860	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	21,900	59,599	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	22,469	61,474	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	23,058	63,479	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	23,661	65,590	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	24,270	67,800	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	24,899	70,114	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	25,559	72,550	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	26,244	75,138	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	26,945	77,792	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	27,664	80,534	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	28,405	83,368	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	29,146	86,229	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	29,879	89,193	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	30,617	92,209	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	31,362	95,232	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	32,111	98,320	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	32,864	101,499	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	33,622	104,767	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	34,280	108,171	38,685

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

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.

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 Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.