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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Bangladesh	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	132,907	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	135,207	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	137,420	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	139,573	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	141,650	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	143,644	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	145,546	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	147,376	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	149,047	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	150,562	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	152,189	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	153,927	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	155,634	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	157,326	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	158,999	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	160,650	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	162,273	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	163,938	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	165,655	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	167,358	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	169,045	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	170,709	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	172,354	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	174,217	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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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.