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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Brazil	Belgium	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	174,320	10,227	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	176,902	10,252	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	179,389	10,288	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	181,721	10,334	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	183,970	10,377	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	186,165	10,422	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	188,330	10,480	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	190,438	10,549	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	192,450	10,627	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	194,458	10,711	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	196,464	10,797	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	198,408	10,897	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	200,152	11,039	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	201,894	11,108	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	203,614	11,160	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	205,358	11,210	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	207,148	11,275	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	208,859	11,332	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	210,537	11,376	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	212,258	11,429	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	213,940	11,491	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	215,577	11,546	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	216,720	11,594	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	217,718	11,695	108,171

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

Brazil

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

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