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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	Congo - Kinshasa	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	51,181	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	52,782	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	54,453	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	56,170	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	57,860	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	59,599	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	61,474	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	63,479	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	65,590	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	67,800	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	70,114	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	72,550	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	75,138	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	77,792	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	80,534	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	83,368	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	86,229	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	89,193	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	92,209	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	95,232	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	98,320	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	101,499	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	104,767	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	108,171	8,834

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.

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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

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.

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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