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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Belgium	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,227	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,252	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,288	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,334	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,377	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,422	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,480	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,549	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,627	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,711	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,797	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,897	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	287	11,039	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	288	11,108	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	289	11,160	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	290	11,210	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	291	11,275	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,332	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,376	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,429	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,491	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,546	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,594	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	295	11,695	83,811

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

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.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.