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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	North Macedonia	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	273	2,006	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	274	2,017	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	275	2,026	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	276	2,011	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	278	2,018	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	279	2,024	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	280	2,028	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	281	2,031	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	282	2,035	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	283	2,038	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	285	2,042	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	286	2,046	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	287	2,049	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	288	2,052	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	289	2,055	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	290	2,058	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	291	2,061	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	291	2,063	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	292	2,065	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	293	2,067	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	294	2,068	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	294	2,065	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	295	2,057	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	295	2,048	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

North Macedonia

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 Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.