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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Sierra Leone	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,736	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,809	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,043	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,287	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	278	4,466	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	279	4,602	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	280	4,708	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	281	4,818	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	282	4,918	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	283	5,023	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	285	5,132	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	286	5,246	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	287	5,364	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	288	5,486	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	289	5,613	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	290	5,744	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	291	5,879	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	291	6,019	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	292	6,163	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	293	6,312	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	294	6,461	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	294	6,611	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	295	6,761	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	295	6,910	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

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, Sierra Leone; the database as a whole is cited above.