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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	Belgium	Burkina Faso	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	277	10,227	11,075	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	281	10,252	11,405	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	285	10,288	11,828	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	288	10,334	12,380	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	289	10,377	12,829	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	293	10,422	13,178	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	296	10,480	13,540	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	304	10,549	13,917	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	311	10,627	14,309	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	319	10,711	14,722	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	319	10,797	15,152	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	318	10,897	15,600	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	319	11,039	16,064	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	321	11,108	16,563	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	324	11,160	17,072	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	327	11,210	17,575	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	331	11,275	18,094	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	335	11,332	18,621	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	343	11,376	19,157	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	353	11,429	19,698	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	361	11,491	20,242	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	366	11,546	20,788	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	372	11,594	21,336	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	380	11,695	21,889	37,914

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.

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.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

No separate list is published for Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.