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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Mexico	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	97,242	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	98,403	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	99,599	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	100,863	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	102,132	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	103,334	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	104,508	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	105,738	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	107,083	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	108,554	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	110,061	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	111,468	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	112,826	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	114,163	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	115,471	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	116,757	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	118,017	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	117,444	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	118,799	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	120,289	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	121,872	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	123,260	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	124,462	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	125,247	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).

Mexico

1550–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Prados de la Escosura, L., (2009), ‘Lost decades? Economic performance in post-independence Latin America’, Journal of Latin America Studies, 41, pp. 279–307. (updated data)
1870-1895: Bértola, L., & Ocampo, J. A. (2012). The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford University Press, Table A.2
1895–2003: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350

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.