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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BelgiumOmanGuinea
10,2272,3487,610
10,2522,4037,780
10,2882,4577,821
10,3342,5107,906
10,3772,5628,121
10,4222,6138,317
10,4802,6638,478
10,5492,7138,650
10,6272,7648,860
10,7112,8169,091
10,7972,8719,327
10,8972,9289,571
11,0392,9869,825
11,1083,04710,084
11,1603,11010,351
11,2103,17410,632
11,2753,24010,924
11,3323,30711,225
11,3763,37511,534
11,4293,44411,855
11,4913,51212,160
11,5463,58212,469
11,5943,65112,778
11,6953,69613,087

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, Guinea; the database as a whole is cited above.