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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Kenya	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	277	30,192	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	281	31,025	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	285	31,919	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	288	32,865	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	289	33,846	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	293	34,880	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	296	35,961	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	304	37,093	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	311	38,248	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	319	39,441	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	319	40,668	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	318	41,900	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	319	43,198	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	321	44,470	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	324	45,639	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	327	46,808	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	331	47,983	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	335	49,095	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	343	50,201	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	353	51,357	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	361	52,522	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	366	53,691	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	372	54,867	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	380	55,924	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.

Kenya

1904-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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.