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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 BelgiumOmanUnited Arab Emirates
10,2272,3483,101
10,2522,4033,284
10,2882,4573,458
10,3342,5103,613
10,3772,5623,754
10,4222,6133,882
10,4802,6634,000
10,5492,7134,532
10,6272,7645,623
10,7112,8167,277
10,7972,8718,164
10,8972,9288,152
11,0392,9868,438
11,1083,0478,747
11,1603,1109,077
11,2103,1749,321
11,2753,2409,461
11,3323,3079,587
11,3763,3759,699
11,4293,4449,796
11,4913,5129,879
11,5463,5829,953
11,5943,65110,018
11,6953,69610,099

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 Oman, United Arab Emirates; the database as a whole is cited above.