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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Chile	Burkina Faso	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	15,140	11,075	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	15,340	11,405	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	15,513	11,828	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	15,686	12,380	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	15,859	12,829	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	16,029	13,178	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	16,222	13,540	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	16,364	13,917	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	16,536	14,309	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	16,700	14,722	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	16,864	15,152	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	16,999	15,600	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	17,189	16,064	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	17,378	16,563	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	17,545	17,072	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	17,720	17,575	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	17,904	18,094	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	18,099	18,621	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	18,350	19,157	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	18,681	19,698	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	19,035	20,242	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	19,385	20,788	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	19,604	21,336	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	19,715	21,889	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

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

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 Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.