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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Senegal	Canada	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	10,070	30,510	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	10,305	30,796	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	10,576	31,132	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	10,864	31,473	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	11,172	31,758	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	11,498	32,055	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	11,839	32,360	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	12,204	32,688	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	12,584	33,007	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	12,978	33,367	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	13,382	33,750	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	13,794	34,127	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	14,226	34,463	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	14,668	34,839	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	15,121	35,209	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	15,589	35,565	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	16,066	35,831	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	16,549	36,239	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	17,044	36,677	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	17,535	37,198	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	18,021	37,736	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	18,518	38,174	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	19,016	38,383	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	19,512	38,685	108,171

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