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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Argentina	Belgium	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	273	36,924	10,227	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	274	37,336	10,252	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	275	37,714	10,288	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	276	38,079	10,334	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	278	38,438	10,377	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	279	38,800	10,422	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	280	39,171	10,480	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	281	39,556	10,549	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	282	39,947	10,627	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	283	40,343	10,711	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	285	40,736	10,797	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	286	41,401	10,897	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	287	41,881	11,039	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	288	42,360	11,108	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	289	42,836	11,160	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	290	43,310	11,210	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	291	43,779	11,275	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	291	44,245	11,332	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	292	44,706	11,376	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	293	45,162	11,429	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	294	45,613	11,491	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	294	46,058	11,546	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,496	11,594	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	295	46,736	11,695	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.

All data sources

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

Argentina

1800 - 1870: 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)
1870 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.

Belgium

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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