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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	Ecuador	Uganda
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	12,268	23,408
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	12,446	24,195
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	12,629	24,992
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	12,827	25,846
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	13,074	26,661
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	13,368	27,414
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	13,661	28,200
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	13,915	29,021
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	14,133	29,846
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	14,352	30,647
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	14,569	31,469
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	14,786	32,343
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	15,002	33,257
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	15,218	34,234
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	15,433	35,271
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	15,647	36,419
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	15,860	37,673
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	16,072	39,157
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	16,282	40,879
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	16,489	42,329
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	16,693	43,639
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	16,894	45,120
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	17,093	46,645
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	17,288	48,065

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.

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.