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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Belgium	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	10,227	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	10,252	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	10,288	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	10,334	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	10,377	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	10,422	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	10,480	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	10,549	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	10,627	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	10,711	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	10,797	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	10,897	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	11,039	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	11,108	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	11,160	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	11,210	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	11,275	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	11,332	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	11,376	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	11,429	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	11,491	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	11,546	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	11,594	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	11,695	108,171

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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