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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	3,811	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	3,901	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	3,919	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	3,923	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	3,940	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	3,975	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	3,991	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	3,993	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	3,990	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	3,987	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	3,985	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	3,983	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	3,980	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	3,977	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	3,973	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	3,968	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	3,963	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	3,957	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	3,951	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	3,944	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	3,937	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	3,929	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	3,921	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	3,876	19,266

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.