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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	3,811	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	3,901	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	3,919	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	3,923	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	3,940	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	3,975	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	3,991	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	3,993	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	3,990	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	3,987	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	3,985	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	3,983	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	3,980	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	3,977	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	3,973	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	3,968	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	3,963	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	3,957	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	3,951	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	3,944	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	3,937	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	3,929	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	3,921	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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.