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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	South Korea	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	46,617	433
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	47,008	438
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	47,370	443
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	47,645	448
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	47,892	454
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	48,083	460
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	48,185	467
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	48,438	474
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	48,684	482
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	49,055	491
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	49,308	500
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	49,554	509
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	49,937	521
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	50,200	533
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	50,429	547
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	50,747	560
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	51,015	571
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	51,218	586
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	51,362	599
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	51,585	610
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	51,765	623
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	51,836	633
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	51,745	643
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	51,731	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.

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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