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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	Greece	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	81,439	10,618	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	81,474	10,662	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	81,534	10,718	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	81,595	10,757	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	81,566	10,783	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	81,473	10,809	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	81,354	10,841	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	81,190	10,874	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	81,009	10,901	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	80,781	10,930	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	80,500	10,959	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	80,301	10,973	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	80,292	10,957	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	80,443	10,898	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	80,663	10,819	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	81,000	10,747	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	81,704	10,677	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	82,366	10,633	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	82,674	10,612	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	82,923	10,590	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	83,110	10,579	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	83,178	10,556	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	83,213	10,499	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	83,811	10,437	11,695

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.

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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.