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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	Burkina Faso	Romania	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	11,075	22,414	627
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	11,405	22,262	659
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	11,828	22,106	691
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	12,380	21,931	724
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	12,829	21,828	757
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	13,178	21,704	850
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	13,540	21,571	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	13,917	21,443	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	14,309	21,129	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	14,722	20,779	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	15,152	20,607	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	15,600	20,485	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	16,064	20,385	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	16,563	20,296	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	17,072	20,224	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	17,575	20,151	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	18,094	20,055	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	18,621	19,938	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	19,157	19,823	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	19,698	19,713	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	20,242	19,622	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	20,788	19,496	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	21,336	19,351	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	21,889	19,266	2,559

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.

All data sources

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.

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.

No separate list is published for Burkina Faso, Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.