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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	Afghanistan	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	22,206	433
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	22,461	438
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	22,507	443
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	23,600	448
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	25,005	454
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	25,698	460
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	26,335	467
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	27,154	474
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	27,387	482
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	27,706	491
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	28,484	500
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	29,121	509
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	29,758	521
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	30,420	533
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	31,108	547
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	31,823	560
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	32,564	571
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	33,332	586
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	34,125	599
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	34,941	610
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	35,972	623
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	37,034	633
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	38,127	643
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	39,252	651

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 Afghanistan, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.