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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Italy	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	56,940	3,811	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	56,966	3,901	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	57,004	3,919	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	57,114	3,923	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	57,423	3,940	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	57,852	3,975	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	58,191	3,991	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	58,424	3,993	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	58,781	3,990	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	59,236	3,987	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	59,580	3,985	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	59,844	3,983	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	60,052	3,980	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	60,216	3,977	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	60,337	3,973	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	60,346	3,968	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	60,255	3,963	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	60,140	3,957	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	60,027	3,951	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	59,902	3,944	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	59,754	3,937	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	59,464	3,929	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	59,158	3,921	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	58,966	3,876	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

Italy

1451-1861: Chilosi, D., & Ciccarelli, C. (2023). Italy in the Great Divergence: What Can We Learn from Engel’s Law (SSRN Scholarly Paper 4514091).
1861-1871 (North Italy): Malanima, P. (2010), “The long decline of a leading economy: GDP in central and northern Italy, 1300–1913” European Review of Economic History 15 (2): 169–219.
1871-1990: Baffigi, A. (2011).”Italian National Accounts, 1861-2011”, Banca d’Italia Economic History Working Papers 18.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

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.