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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BelgiumCroatiaCongo - Kinshasa
10,2274,37751,181
10,2524,33452,782
10,2884,17154,453
10,3344,17656,170
10,3774,17657,860
10,4224,17959,599
10,4804,18261,474
10,5494,18363,479
10,6274,18365,590
10,7114,18167,800
10,7974,17770,114
10,8974,16772,550
11,0394,15475,138
11,1084,14177,792
11,1604,12680,534
11,2104,10983,368
11,2754,08186,229
11,3324,04789,193
11,3764,00692,209
11,4293,96895,232
11,4913,94598,320
11,5463,925101,499
11,5943,839104,767
11,6953,790108,171

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.

Croatia

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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