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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Yemen	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	3,811	16,728	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	3,901	17,236	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	3,919	17,762	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	3,923	18,310	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	3,940	18,855	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	3,975	19,410	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	3,991	20,000	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	3,993	20,611	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	3,990	21,236	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	3,987	21,878	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	3,985	22,533	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	3,983	23,195	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	3,980	23,880	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	3,977	24,594	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	3,973	25,311	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	3,968	26,020	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	3,963	26,698	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	3,957	27,347	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	3,951	27,985	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	3,944	28,608	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	3,937	29,216	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	3,929	29,811	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	3,921	30,399	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	3,876	31,058	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 Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.