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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 BelgiumOmanSudan
10,2272,34826,168
10,2522,40326,771
10,2882,45727,387
10,3342,51028,017
10,3772,56228,662
10,4222,61329,321
10,4802,66329,996
10,5492,71330,686
10,6272,76431,393
10,7112,81632,137
10,7972,87133,078
10,8972,92833,891
11,0392,98634,568
11,1083,04735,293
11,1603,11036,093
11,2103,17437,058
11,2753,24038,165
11,3323,30739,294
11,3763,37540,512
11,4293,44441,764
11,4913,51242,952
11,5463,58244,121
11,5943,65145,290
11,6953,69646,498

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