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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 BelgiumTrinidad & TobagoBurkina Faso
10,2271,30111,075
10,2521,30311,405
10,2881,30811,828
10,3341,31412,380
10,3771,32012,829
10,4221,32613,178
10,4801,33213,540
10,5491,33813,917
10,6271,34414,309
10,7111,35214,722
10,7971,35915,152
10,8971,36515,600
11,0391,37216,064
11,1081,37916,563
11,1601,38617,072
11,2101,39217,575
11,2751,39918,094
11,3321,40518,621
11,3761,41119,157
11,4291,43619,698
11,4911,45220,242
11,5461,44820,788
11,5941,45021,336
11,6951,45621,889

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 Trinidad & Tobago, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.