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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	United States	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	279,040	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	282,162	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	284,969	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	287,625	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	290,108	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	292,805	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	295,517	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	298,380	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	301,231	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	304,094	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	306,772	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	309,327	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	311,583	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	313,878	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	316,060	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	318,386	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	320,739	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	323,072	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	325,122	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	326,838	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	328,330	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	331,512	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	332,032	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	333,288	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.

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).

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.