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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 LithuaniaBelgiumCongo - Kinshasa
3,41910,22751,181
3,39510,25252,782
3,36710,28854,453
3,34010,33456,170
3,31310,37757,860
3,27610,42259,599
3,22310,48061,474
3,17210,54963,479
3,13410,62765,590
3,10210,71167,800
3,06810,79770,114
3,00410,89772,550
2,93711,03975,138
2,89811,10877,792
2,86911,16080,534
2,84411,21083,368
2,81811,27586,229
2,78211,33289,193
2,74411,37692,209
2,71811,42995,232
2,71011,49198,320
2,71111,546101,499
2,72411,594104,767
2,74811,695108,171

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