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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Mexico	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	277	97,242	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	281	98,403	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	285	99,599	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	288	100,863	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	289	102,132	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	293	103,334	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	296	104,508	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	304	105,738	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	311	107,083	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	319	108,554	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	319	110,061	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	318	111,468	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	319	112,826	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	321	114,163	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	324	115,471	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	327	116,757	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	331	118,017	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	335	117,444	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	343	118,799	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	353	120,289	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	361	121,872	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	366	123,260	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	372	124,462	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	380	125,247	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.

Mexico

1550–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Prados de la Escosura, L., (2009), ‘Lost decades? Economic performance in post-independence Latin America’, Journal of Latin America Studies, 41, pp. 279–307. (updated data)
1870-1895: Bértola, L., & Ocampo, J. A. (2012). The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford University Press, Table A.2
1895–2003: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350

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.