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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	Albania	Venezuela
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	3,085	23,188
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	3,065	23,601
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	3,047	24,011
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	3,038	24,425
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	3,026	24,841
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	3,014	25,255
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	2,998	25,667
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	2,979	26,079
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	2,957	26,589
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	2,934	27,098
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	2,915	27,510
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	2,900	27,920
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	2,892	28,327
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	2,888	28,722
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	2,882	29,111
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	2,876	29,418
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	2,868	29,693
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	2,863	29,961
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	2,861	29,856
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	2,854	28,858
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	2,842	27,921
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	2,825	27,871
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	2,799	28,316
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	2,787	28,418

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.

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

No separate list is published for Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.