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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Afghanistan	Belgium	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	22,206	10,227	433
Dec 31, 2000	22,461	10,252	438
Dec 31, 2001	22,507	10,288	443
Dec 31, 2002	23,600	10,334	448
Dec 31, 2003	25,005	10,377	454
Dec 31, 2004	25,698	10,422	460
Dec 31, 2005	26,335	10,480	467
Dec 31, 2006	27,154	10,549	474
Dec 31, 2007	27,387	10,627	482
Dec 31, 2008	27,706	10,711	491
Dec 31, 2009	28,484	10,797	500
Dec 31, 2010	29,121	10,897	509
Dec 31, 2011	29,758	11,039	521
Dec 31, 2012	30,420	11,108	533
Dec 31, 2013	31,108	11,160	547
Dec 31, 2014	31,823	11,210	560
Dec 31, 2015	32,564	11,275	571
Dec 31, 2016	33,332	11,332	586
Dec 31, 2017	34,125	11,376	599
Dec 31, 2018	34,941	11,429	610
Dec 31, 2019	35,972	11,491	623
Dec 31, 2020	37,034	11,546	633
Dec 31, 2021	38,127	11,594	643
Dec 31, 2022	39,252	11,695	651

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 Afghanistan, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.