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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Belgium	Namibia
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	10,227	1,841
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	10,252	1,893
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	10,288	1,945
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	10,334	1,981
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	10,377	2,008
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	10,422	2,034
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	10,480	2,060
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	10,549	2,086
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	10,627	2,113
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	10,711	2,141
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	10,797	2,170
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	10,897	2,201
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	11,039	2,232
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	11,108	2,268
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	11,160	2,312
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	11,210	2,360
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	11,275	2,408
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	11,332	2,456
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	11,376	2,505
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	11,429	2,554
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	11,491	2,602
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	11,546	2,651
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	11,594	2,700
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	11,695	2,739

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