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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 & TobagoParaguay
10,2271,3015,366
10,2521,3035,473
10,2881,3085,579
10,3341,3145,683
10,3771,3205,786
10,4221,3265,886
10,4801,3325,984
10,5491,3386,080
10,6271,3446,173
10,7111,3526,264
10,7971,3596,352
10,8971,3656,438
11,0391,3726,522
11,1081,3796,605
11,1601,3866,688
11,2101,3926,769
11,2751,3996,850
11,3321,4056,930
11,3761,4117,012
11,4291,4367,095
11,4911,4527,179
11,5461,4487,263
11,5941,4507,348
11,6951,4567,432

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