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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	South Africa	Burkina Faso	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	273	46,257	11,075	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	274	46,958	11,405	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	275	47,820	11,828	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	276	48,480	12,380	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	278	48,951	12,829	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	279	49,478	13,178	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	280	50,054	13,540	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	281	50,667	13,917	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	282	51,339	14,309	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	283	52,077	14,722	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	285	52,862	15,152	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	286	53,682	15,600	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	287	54,518	16,064	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	288	55,356	16,563	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	289	56,215	17,072	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	290	57,075	17,575	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	291	57,947	18,094	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	291	58,830	18,621	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	292	59,715	19,157	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	293	60,595	19,698	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	294	61,469	20,242	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	294	62,355	20,788	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	295	62,900	21,336	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	295	63,382	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

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

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.