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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Laos	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	277	5,286	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	281	5,397	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	285	5,499	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	288	5,578	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	289	5,654	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	293	5,746	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	296	5,836	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	304	5,931	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	311	6,035	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	319	6,145	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	319	6,257	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	318	6,368	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	319	6,477	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	321	6,586	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	324	6,695	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	327	6,804	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	331	6,912	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	335	7,019	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	343	7,127	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	353	7,234	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	361	7,343	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	366	7,452	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	372	7,560	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	380	7,666	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.

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 Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.