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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Germany	Belgium	Botswana
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	81,439	10,227	1,630
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	81,474	10,252	1,665
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	81,534	10,288	1,698
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	81,595	10,334	1,730
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	81,566	10,377	1,761
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	81,473	10,422	1,792
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	81,354	10,480	1,824
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	81,190	10,549	1,857
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	81,009	10,627	1,890
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	80,781	10,711	1,923
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	80,500	10,797	1,956
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	80,301	10,897	1,990
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	80,292	11,039	2,023
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	80,443	11,108	2,057
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	80,663	11,160	2,091
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	81,000	11,210	2,125
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	81,704	11,275	2,159
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	82,366	11,332	2,194
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	82,674	11,376	2,228
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	82,923	11,429	2,262
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	83,110	11,491	2,297
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	83,178	11,546	2,331
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	83,213	11,594	2,365
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	83,811	11,695	2,403

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.

All data sources

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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