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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Indonesia	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	273	208,105	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	274	211,408	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	275	214,475	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	276	217,516	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	278	220,549	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	279	224,473	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	280	227,534	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	281	230,739	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	282	233,918	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	283	237,056	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	285	240,140	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	286	243,171	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	287	246,150	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	288	249,086	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	289	251,947	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	290	254,702	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	291	257,351	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	291	259,906	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	292	262,379	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	293	264,789	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	294	267,142	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	294	269,437	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	295	271,674	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	295	273,409	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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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.