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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	Germany	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	81,439	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	81,474	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	81,534	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	81,595	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	81,566	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	81,473	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	81,354	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	81,190	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	81,009	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	80,781	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	80,500	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	80,301	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	80,292	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	80,443	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	80,663	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	81,000	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	81,704	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	82,366	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	82,674	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	82,923	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	83,110	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	83,178	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	83,213	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	83,811	3,876

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.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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