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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Myanmar (Burma)	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	277	45,018	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	281	45,616	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	285	46,171	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	288	46,690	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	289	47,201	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	293	47,699	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	296	48,196	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	304	48,674	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	311	49,151	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	319	49,505	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	319	49,896	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	318	50,285	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	319	50,813	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	321	51,369	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	324	51,878	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	327	52,374	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	331	52,900	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	335	53,416	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	343	53,914	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	353	54,403	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	361	54,884	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	366	55,355	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	372	55,815	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	380	56,210	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.

Myanmar (Burma)

1901-1938: "Trends of Economic Growth and Income Distribution in Burma 1870-1940", Journal of the Burma Research Society, 1964, p. 144
1938-1950: E.E. Hagen, On the Theory of Social Change, Dorsey, Homewood, Illinois, 1962, Table 18-1,

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.