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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Central African Republic	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	3,889	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	3,980	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	4,054	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	4,128	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	4,215	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	4,289	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	4,363	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	4,449	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	4,544	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	4,641	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	4,742	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	4,845	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	4,950	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	5,057	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	5,167	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	5,278	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	5,392	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	5,507	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	5,625	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	5,745	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	5,874	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	6,025	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	6,154	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	6,291	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

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 Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.