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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	India	Hungary	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	1,000,965	10,244	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	1,018,667	10,218	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	1,036,256	10,194	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	1,053,663	10,165	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	1,070,882	10,136	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	1,087,941	10,114	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	1,104,803	10,094	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	1,121,354	10,078	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	1,137,576	10,062	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	1,153,547	10,045	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	1,169,239	10,029	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	1,184,638	10,007	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	1,199,810	9,978	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	1,214,839	9,927	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	1,229,765	9,900	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	1,244,577	9,873	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	1,259,236	9,850	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	1,273,693	9,821	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	1,287,902	9,794	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	1,301,821	9,782	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	1,315,530	9,778	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	1,329,062	9,757	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	1,339,912	9,716	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	1,349,060	9,690	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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GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

India

1600–1870: Broadberry, S.N., Custodis, J. and Gupta, B. (2015), “India and the great divergence: an Anglo-Indian comparison of GDP per capita, 1600–1871” Explorations in Economic History, 55: 58-75.
1870-1900: A. Heston, "National Income", in D. Kumar and M. Desai, Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2, Cambridge, 1983, p. 397.
1900-46: A. Maddison, "Alternative Estimates of the Real Product of India, 1900-46", Indian Economic and Social History Review, 22, 2, 1985.
1946-50: A. Maddison, Class Structure and Economic Growth: India and Pakistan Since the Moghuls, Allen and Unwin, London, 1971, p. 169.

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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.