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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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

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.