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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Colombia	Congo - Kinshasa	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	38,365	51,181	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	38,911	52,782	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	39,411	54,453	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	39,918	56,170	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	40,416	57,860	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	40,899	59,599	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	41,374	61,474	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	41,862	63,479	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	42,324	65,590	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	42,781	67,800	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	43,264	70,114	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	43,771	72,550	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	44,225	75,138	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	44,660	77,792	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	45,081	80,534	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	45,846	83,368	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	46,290	86,229	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	46,796	89,193	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	47,385	92,209	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	48,222	95,232	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	49,326	98,320	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	50,283	101,499	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	50,978	104,767	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	51,332	108,171	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

Colombia

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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.