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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Barbados	Ecuador	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	277	273	12,268	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	281	274	12,446	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	285	275	12,629	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	288	276	12,827	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	289	278	13,074	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	293	279	13,368	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	296	280	13,661	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	304	281	13,915	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	311	282	14,133	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	319	283	14,352	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	319	285	14,569	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	318	286	14,786	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	319	287	15,002	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	321	288	15,218	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	324	289	15,433	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	327	290	15,647	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	331	291	15,860	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	335	291	16,072	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	343	292	16,282	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	353	293	16,489	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	361	294	16,693	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	366	294	16,894	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	372	295	17,093	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	380	295	17,288	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.

All data sources

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.

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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 Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.