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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date CambodiaCongo - KinshasaBelgium
12,12251,18110,227
12,31752,78210,252
12,50454,45310,288
12,69156,17010,334
12,88157,86010,377
13,07659,59910,422
13,27661,47410,480
13,46163,47910,549
13,63065,59010,627
13,80867,80010,711
13,99070,11410,797
14,16272,55010,897
14,32275,13811,039
14,48077,79211,108
14,63780,53411,160
14,79383,36811,210
14,99486,22911,275
15,23889,19311,332
15,48092,20911,376
15,71795,23211,429
15,94498,32011,491
16,149101,49911,546
16,338104,76711,594
16,514108,17111,695

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

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 Cambodia, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.