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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Brazil	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	273	174,320	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	274	176,902	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	275	179,389	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	276	181,721	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	278	183,970	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	279	186,165	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	280	188,330	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	281	190,438	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	282	192,450	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	283	194,458	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	285	196,464	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	286	198,408	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	287	200,152	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	288	201,894	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	289	203,614	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	290	205,358	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	291	207,148	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	291	208,859	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	292	210,537	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	293	212,258	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	294	213,940	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	294	215,577	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	295	216,720	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	295	217,718	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

Brazil

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

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 Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.