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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	Lebanon	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	3,460	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	3,499	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	3,554	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	3,610	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	3,665	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	3,721	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	3,777	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	3,853	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	3,954	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	4,036	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	4,082	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	4,097	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	4,115	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	4,206	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	4,696	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	5,365	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	5,640	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	5,688	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	5,680	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	5,562	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	5,331	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	4,986	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	4,802	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	4,713	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.

Lebanon

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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