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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	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	277	10,227	11,075	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	281	10,252	11,405	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	285	10,288	11,828	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	288	10,334	12,380	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	289	10,377	12,829	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	293	10,422	13,178	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	296	10,480	13,540	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	304	10,549	13,917	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	311	10,627	14,309	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	319	10,711	14,722	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	319	10,797	15,152	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	318	10,897	15,600	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	319	11,039	16,064	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	321	11,108	16,563	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	324	11,160	17,072	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	327	11,210	17,575	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	331	11,275	18,094	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	335	11,332	18,621	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	343	11,376	19,157	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	353	11,429	19,698	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	361	11,491	20,242	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	366	11,546	20,788	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	372	11,594	21,336	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	380	11,695	21,889	34,081

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.

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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