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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	Iceland	Norway	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	4,463	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	4,492	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	4,515	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	4,539	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	4,566	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	4,593	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	4,624	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	4,662	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	4,710	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	4,769	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	4,830	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	4,890	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	4,954	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	5,020	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	5,081	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	5,138	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	5,191	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	5,237	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	5,278	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	5,313	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	5,349	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	5,380	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	5,409	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	5,458	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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Norway

1820–1930: Grytten, O.H. (2015). Norwegian gross domestic product by industry 1830 - 1930, Norges Bank Working paper 19/2015. Population from Maddison (2006)
1930-1950: Central Bureau of Statistics Norway, 1970 and Maddison, A. Monintoring the World Economy, 1995

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; the database as a whole is cited above.