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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BelgiumLaosCongo - Kinshasa
10,2275,28651,181
10,2525,39752,782
10,2885,49954,453
10,3345,57856,170
10,3775,65457,860
10,4225,74659,599
10,4805,83661,474
10,5495,93163,479
10,6276,03565,590
10,7116,14567,800
10,7976,25770,114
10,8976,36872,550
11,0396,47775,138
11,1086,58677,792
11,1606,69580,534
11,2106,80483,368
11,2756,91286,229
11,3327,01989,193
11,3767,12792,209
11,4297,23495,232
11,4917,34398,320
11,5467,452101,499
11,5947,560104,767
11,6957,666108,171

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.

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