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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	Hungary	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	10,244	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	10,218	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	10,194	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	10,165	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	10,136	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	10,114	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	10,094	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	10,078	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	10,062	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	10,045	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	10,029	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	10,007	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	9,978	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	9,927	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	9,900	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	9,873	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	9,850	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	9,821	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	9,794	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	9,782	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	9,778	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	9,757	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	9,716	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	9,690	108,171

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.

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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