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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	Romania	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	277	10,227	22,414	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	281	10,252	22,262	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	285	10,288	22,106	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	288	10,334	21,931	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	289	10,377	21,828	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	293	10,422	21,704	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	296	10,480	21,571	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	304	10,549	21,443	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	311	10,627	21,129	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	319	10,711	20,779	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	319	10,797	20,607	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	318	10,897	20,485	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	319	11,039	20,385	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	321	11,108	20,296	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	324	11,160	20,224	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	327	11,210	20,151	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	331	11,275	20,055	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	335	11,332	19,938	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	343	11,376	19,823	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	353	11,429	19,713	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	361	11,491	19,622	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	366	11,546	19,496	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	372	11,594	19,351	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	380	11,695	19,266	108,171

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.