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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Congo - Kinshasa	Laos	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	51,181	5,286	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	52,782	5,397	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	54,453	5,499	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	56,170	5,578	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	57,860	5,654	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	59,599	5,746	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	61,474	5,836	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	63,479	5,931	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	65,590	6,035	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	67,800	6,145	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	70,114	6,257	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	72,550	6,368	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	75,138	6,477	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	77,792	6,586	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	80,534	6,695	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	83,368	6,804	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	86,229	6,912	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	89,193	7,019	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	92,209	7,127	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	95,232	7,234	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	98,320	7,343	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	101,499	7,452	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	104,767	7,560	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	108,171	7,666	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.

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