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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ghana	Congo - Kinshasa	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	19,327	51,181	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	19,792	52,782	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	20,280	54,453	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	20,806	56,170	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	21,350	57,860	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	21,900	59,599	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	22,469	61,474	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	23,058	63,479	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	23,661	65,590	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	24,270	67,800	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	24,899	70,114	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	25,559	72,550	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	26,244	75,138	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	26,945	77,792	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	27,664	80,534	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	28,405	83,368	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	29,146	86,229	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	29,879	89,193	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	30,617	92,209	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	31,362	95,232	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	32,111	98,320	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	32,864	101,499	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	33,622	104,767	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	34,280	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

Ghana

1885-1950: 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.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.