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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 Trinidad & TobagoBelgiumBurkina Faso
1,30110,22711,075
1,30310,25211,405
1,30810,28811,828
1,31410,33412,380
1,32010,37712,829
1,32610,42213,178
1,33210,48013,540
1,33810,54913,917
1,34410,62714,309
1,35210,71114,722
1,35910,79715,152
1,36510,89715,600
1,37211,03916,064
1,37911,10816,563
1,38611,16017,072
1,39211,21017,575
1,39911,27518,094
1,40511,33218,621
1,41111,37619,157
1,43611,42919,698
1,45211,49120,242
1,44811,54620,788
1,45011,59421,336
1,45611,69521,889

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 Trinidad & Tobago, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.