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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	Germany	Burkina Faso	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	277	81,439	11,075	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	281	81,474	11,405	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	285	81,534	11,828	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	288	81,595	12,380	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	289	81,566	12,829	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	293	81,473	13,178	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	296	81,354	13,540	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	304	81,190	13,917	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	311	81,009	14,309	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	319	80,781	14,722	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	319	80,500	15,152	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	318	80,301	15,600	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	319	80,292	16,064	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	321	80,443	16,563	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	324	80,663	17,072	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	327	81,000	17,575	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	331	81,704	18,094	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	335	82,366	18,621	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	343	82,674	19,157	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	353	82,923	19,698	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	361	83,110	20,242	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	366	83,178	20,788	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	372	83,213	21,336	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	380	83,811	21,889	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.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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.

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