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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	Guinea	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	7,610	433
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	7,780	438
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	7,821	443
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	7,906	448
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	8,121	454
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	8,317	460
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	8,478	467
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	8,650	474
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	8,860	482
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	9,091	491
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	9,327	500
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	9,571	509
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	9,825	521
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	10,084	533
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	10,351	547
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	10,632	560
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	10,924	571
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	11,225	586
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	11,534	599
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	11,855	610
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	12,160	623
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	12,469	633
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	12,778	643
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	13,087	651

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.

No separate list is published for Guinea, Luxembourg; the database as a whole is cited above.