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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Argentina	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	277	36,924	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	281	37,336	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	285	37,714	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	288	38,079	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	289	38,438	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	293	38,800	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	296	39,171	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	304	39,556	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	311	39,947	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	319	40,343	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	319	40,736	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	318	41,401	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	319	41,881	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	321	42,360	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	324	42,836	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	327	43,310	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	331	43,779	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	335	44,245	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	343	44,706	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	353	45,162	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	361	45,613	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	366	46,058	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	372	46,496	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	380	46,736	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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Argentina

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 - 1900: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P
1900-1913: Unpublished annual estimates supplied by ECLA/CONADE. and quinquennial averages published in El Desarrollo Económico de la Argentina, ECLA, Mexico, 1959, p. 15;
1913-1950: IEERAL, "Estadísticas de la evolución económica de Argentina, 1913-84", Estudios, Buenos Aires, July-September, 1986.

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.