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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Saudi Arabia	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	273	19,964	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	274	20,426	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	275	20,956	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,549	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,189	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,850	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,516	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	281	24,178	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	282	24,841	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	283	25,518	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	285	26,227	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	286	27,068	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	287	27,810	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	288	28,516	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,220	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,936	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	291	30,646	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	291	31,360	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	292	32,184	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	293	32,869	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	294	33,661	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	294	34,542	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	295	33,651	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	295	34,081	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

Saudi Arabia

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

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.