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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	Lebanon
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,227	3,460
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,252	3,499
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,288	3,554
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,334	3,610
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,377	3,665
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,422	3,721
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,480	3,777
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,549	3,853
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,627	3,954
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,711	4,036
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,797	4,082
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,897	4,097
Dec 31, 2011	287	11,039	4,115
Dec 31, 2012	288	11,108	4,206
Dec 31, 2013	289	11,160	4,696
Dec 31, 2014	290	11,210	5,365
Dec 31, 2015	291	11,275	5,640
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,332	5,688
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,376	5,680
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,429	5,562
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,491	5,331
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,546	4,986
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,594	4,802
Dec 31, 2022	295	11,695	4,713

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.

Lebanon

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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