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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 BelgiumOmanVietnam
10,2272,34878,394
10,2522,40379,472
10,2882,45780,546
10,3342,51081,637
10,3772,56282,720
10,4222,61383,821
10,4802,66384,942
10,5492,71386,036
10,6272,76487,136
10,7112,81688,253
10,7972,87189,373
10,8972,92890,481
11,0392,98691,591
11,1083,04792,720
11,1603,11093,883
11,2103,17495,055
11,2753,24096,222
11,3323,30797,380
11,3763,37598,507
11,4293,44499,604
11,4913,512100,695
11,5463,582101,771
11,5943,651102,815
11,6953,696103,574

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