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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	Cuba	Burkina Faso	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	273	11,108	11,075	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	274	11,147	11,405	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	275	11,179	11,828	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	276	11,210	12,380	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	278	11,241	12,829	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	279	11,260	13,178	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	280	11,268	13,540	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	281	11,266	13,917	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	282	11,261	14,309	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	283	11,258	14,722	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	285	11,260	15,152	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	286	11,262	15,600	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	287	11,264	16,064	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	288	11,262	16,563	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	289	11,250	17,072	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	290	11,238	17,575	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	291	11,214	18,094	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,180	18,621	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,147	19,157	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,116	19,698	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,105	20,242	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,089	20,788	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,046	21,336	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	295	11,003	21,889	11,695

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

Cuba

1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

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, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.