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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Serbia	Congo - Kinshasa	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	7,611	51,181	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	7,587	52,782	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	7,574	54,453	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	7,570	56,170	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	7,551	57,860	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	7,533	59,599	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	7,510	61,474	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	7,481	63,479	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	7,451	65,590	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	7,419	67,800	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	7,389	70,114	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	7,360	72,550	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	7,304	75,138	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	7,269	77,792	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	7,234	80,534	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	7,199	83,368	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	7,162	86,229	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	7,124	89,193	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	7,087	92,209	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	7,048	95,232	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	7,010	98,320	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	6,964	101,499	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	6,898	104,767	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	6,833	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

Serbia

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.

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