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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Uganda	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	273	23,408	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	274	24,195	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	275	24,992	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	276	25,846	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	278	26,661	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	279	27,414	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	280	28,200	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	281	29,021	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	282	29,846	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	283	30,647	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	285	31,469	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	286	32,343	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	287	33,257	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	288	34,234	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	289	35,271	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	290	36,419	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	291	37,673	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	291	39,157	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	292	40,879	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	293	42,329	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	294	43,639	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	294	45,120	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	295	46,645	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	295	48,065	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

Uganda

1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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.