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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Jordan	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	277	4,591	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	281	4,700	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	285	4,811	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	288	4,923	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	289	5,037	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	293	5,161	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	296	5,295	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	304	5,765	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	311	6,243	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	319	6,397	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	319	6,538	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	318	6,680	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	319	6,840	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	321	6,952	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	324	7,706	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	327	8,839	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	331	9,506	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	335	9,863	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	343	10,066	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	353	10,273	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	361	10,480	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	366	10,628	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	372	10,716	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	380	10,849	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.

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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.

Jordan

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
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

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.