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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Australia	Belgium	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	10,227	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	10,252	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	10,288	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	10,334	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	10,377	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	10,422	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	10,480	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	10,549	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	10,627	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	10,711	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	10,797	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	10,897	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	11,039	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	11,108	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	11,160	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	11,210	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	11,275	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	11,332	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	11,376	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	11,429	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	11,491	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	11,546	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	11,594	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	11,695	3,876

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

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project