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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Belgium	France
Dec 31, 1999	277	10,227	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	281	10,252	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	285	10,288	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	288	10,334	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	289	10,377	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	293	10,422	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	296	10,480	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	304	10,549	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	311	10,627	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	319	10,711	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	319	10,797	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	318	10,897	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	319	11,039	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	321	11,108	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	324	11,160	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	327	11,210	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	331	11,275	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	335	11,332	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	343	11,376	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	353	11,429	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	361	11,491	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	366	11,546	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	372	11,594	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	380	11,695	68,387

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.

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987