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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Philippines	Albania	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	277	79,346	3,085	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	281	81,131	3,065	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	285	83,023	3,047	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	288	84,876	3,038	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	289	86,697	3,026	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	293	88,568	3,014	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	296	90,418	2,998	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	304	92,253	2,979	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	311	94,098	2,957	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	319	95,923	2,934	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	319	97,627	2,915	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	318	99,317	2,900	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	319	100,999	2,892	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	321	102,618	2,888	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	324	104,299	2,882	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	327	106,076	2,876	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	331	107,868	2,868	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	335	109,493	2,863	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	343	111,094	2,861	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	353	112,843	2,854	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	361	114,636	2,842	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	366	117,026	2,825	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	372	119,473	2,799	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	380	121,234	2,787	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.

All data sources

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.

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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 Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.