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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	North Korea	Burkina Faso	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	22,594	11,075	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	22,785	11,405	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	22,977	11,828	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	23,165	12,380	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	23,330	12,829	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	23,477	13,178	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	23,621	13,540	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	23,764	13,917	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	23,908	14,309	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	24,051	14,722	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	24,191	15,152	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	24,326	15,600	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	24,457	16,064	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	24,589	16,563	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	24,720	17,072	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	24,852	17,575	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	24,983	18,094	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	25,115	18,621	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	25,248	19,157	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	25,381	19,698	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	25,497	20,242	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	25,608	20,788	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	25,711	21,336	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	25,808	21,889	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

North Korea

1911-1940: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing.
1990-2011: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing.

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 Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.