Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Add a country

Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Bolivia	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	277	8,007	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	281	8,177	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	285	8,351	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	288	8,529	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	289	8,711	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	293	8,895	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	296	9,081	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	304	9,268	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	311	9,457	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	319	9,647	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	319	9,836	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	318	10,024	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	319	10,211	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	321	10,397	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	324	10,581	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	327	10,763	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	331	10,942	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	335	11,118	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	343	11,289	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	353	11,456	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	361	11,621	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	366	11,775	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	372	11,917	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	380	12,060	11,695

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.

Bolivia

1846-1950: Herranz-Loncán, A. and Peres-Cajías (2016). “Bolivian GDP per capita since the mid-nineteenth century” Cliometrica 10: 99-128

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.