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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Indonesia	Congo - Kinshasa	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	208,105	51,181	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	211,408	52,782	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	214,475	54,453	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	217,516	56,170	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	220,549	57,860	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	224,473	59,599	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	227,534	61,474	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	230,739	63,479	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	233,918	65,590	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	237,056	67,800	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	240,140	70,114	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	243,171	72,550	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	246,150	75,138	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	249,086	77,792	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	251,947	80,534	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	254,702	83,368	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	257,351	86,229	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	259,906	89,193	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	262,379	92,209	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	264,789	95,232	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	267,142	98,320	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	269,437	101,499	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	271,674	104,767	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	273,409	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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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.