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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 BelgiumPuerto RicoCongo - Kinshasa
10,2273,80051,181
10,2523,81152,782
10,2883,81954,453
10,3343,82456,170
10,3773,82657,860
10,4223,82759,599
10,4803,82261,474
10,5493,80563,479
10,6273,78365,590
10,7113,76167,800
10,7973,74170,114
10,8973,72272,550
11,0393,67975,138
11,1083,63677,792
11,1603,58980,534
11,2103,53483,368
11,2753,47386,229
11,3323,41189,193
11,3763,35292,209
11,4293,29595,232
11,4913,26898,320
11,5463,247101,499
11,5943,232104,767
11,6953,228108,171

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 Puerto Rico, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.