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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	China	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	1,248,899	273
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	1,258,401	274
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	1,267,178	275
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	1,275,379	276
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	1,283,064	278
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	1,290,620	279
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	1,298,245	280
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	1,305,116	281
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	1,311,877	282
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	1,318,559	283
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	1,324,993	285
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	1,331,357	286
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	1,339,549	287
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	1,349,537	288
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	1,357,520	289
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	1,366,654	290
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	1,373,406	291
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	1,382,401	291
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	1,390,136	292
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	1,395,398	293
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	1,400,035	294
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	1,402,060	294
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	1,402,537	295
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	1,401,693	295

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.

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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