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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BelgiumEstoniaBurkina Faso
10,2271,37811,075
10,2521,40011,405
10,2881,39111,828
10,3341,38212,380
10,3771,37412,829
10,4221,36513,178
10,4801,35713,540
10,5491,34913,917
10,6271,34114,309
10,7111,33714,722
10,7971,33415,152
10,8971,33215,600
11,0391,32816,064
11,1081,32416,563
11,1601,31917,072
11,2101,31417,575
11,2751,31218,094
11,3321,31418,621
11,3761,31419,157
11,4291,31819,698
11,4911,32320,242
11,5461,32720,788
11,5941,32921,336
11,6951,33021,889

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.

No separate list is published for Estonia, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.