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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Belgium	Denmark
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	10,227	5,322
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	10,252	5,339
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	10,288	5,358
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	10,334	5,377
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	10,377	5,391
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	10,422	5,404
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	10,480	5,420
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	10,549	5,438
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	10,627	5,461
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	10,711	5,494
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	10,797	5,524
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	10,897	5,548
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	11,039	5,571
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	11,108	5,592
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	11,160	5,614
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	11,210	5,644
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	11,275	5,683
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	11,332	5,730
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	11,376	5,766
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	11,429	5,795
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	11,491	5,818
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	11,546	5,831
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	11,594	5,855
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	11,695	5,907

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

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 Denmark; the database as a whole is cited above.