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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	Congo - Kinshasa	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	51,181	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	52,782	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	54,453	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	56,170	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	57,860	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	59,599	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	61,474	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	63,479	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	65,590	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	67,800	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	70,114	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	72,550	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	75,138	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	77,792	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	80,534	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	83,368	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	86,229	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	89,193	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	92,209	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	95,232	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	98,320	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	101,499	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	104,767	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	108,171	19,266

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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