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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 BelgiumOmanCentral African Republic
10,2272,3483,889
10,2522,4033,980
10,2882,4574,054
10,3342,5104,128
10,3772,5624,215
10,4222,6134,289
10,4802,6634,363
10,5492,7134,449
10,6272,7644,544
10,7112,8164,641
10,7972,8714,742
10,8972,9284,845
11,0392,9864,950
11,1083,0475,057
11,1603,1105,167
11,2103,1745,278
11,2753,2405,392
11,3323,3075,507
11,3763,3755,625
11,4293,4445,745
11,4913,5125,874
11,5463,5826,025
11,5943,6516,154
11,6953,6966,291

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, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.