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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 SudanBelgiumBosnia & Herzegovina
26,16810,2273,811
26,77110,2523,901
27,38710,2883,919
28,01710,3343,923
28,66210,3773,940
29,32110,4223,975
29,99610,4803,991
30,68610,5493,993
31,39310,6273,990
32,13710,7113,987
33,07810,7973,985
33,89110,8973,983
34,56811,0393,980
35,29311,1083,977
36,09311,1603,973
37,05811,2103,968
38,16511,2753,963
39,29411,3323,957
40,51211,3763,951
41,76411,4293,944
42,95211,4913,937
44,12111,5463,929
45,29011,5943,921
46,49811,6953,876

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

No separate list is published for Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.