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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Belgium	Afghanistan
Dec 31, 1999	277	10,227	22,206
Dec 31, 2000	281	10,252	22,461
Dec 31, 2001	285	10,288	22,507
Dec 31, 2002	288	10,334	23,600
Dec 31, 2003	289	10,377	25,005
Dec 31, 2004	293	10,422	25,698
Dec 31, 2005	296	10,480	26,335
Dec 31, 2006	304	10,549	27,154
Dec 31, 2007	311	10,627	27,387
Dec 31, 2008	319	10,711	27,706
Dec 31, 2009	319	10,797	28,484
Dec 31, 2010	318	10,897	29,121
Dec 31, 2011	319	11,039	29,758
Dec 31, 2012	321	11,108	30,420
Dec 31, 2013	324	11,160	31,108
Dec 31, 2014	327	11,210	31,823
Dec 31, 2015	331	11,275	32,564
Dec 31, 2016	335	11,332	33,332
Dec 31, 2017	343	11,376	34,125
Dec 31, 2018	353	11,429	34,941
Dec 31, 2019	361	11,491	35,972
Dec 31, 2020	366	11,546	37,034
Dec 31, 2021	372	11,594	38,127
Dec 31, 2022	380	11,695	39,252

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.

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 Afghanistan; the database as a whole is cited above.