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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Uganda	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	23,408	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	24,195	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	24,992	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	25,846	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	26,661	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	27,414	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	28,200	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	29,021	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	29,846	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	30,647	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	31,469	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	32,343	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	33,257	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	34,234	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	35,271	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	36,419	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	37,673	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	39,157	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	40,879	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	42,329	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	43,639	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	45,120	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	46,645	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	48,065	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

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.

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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.