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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	Lebanon	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	3,460	433
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	3,499	438
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	3,554	443
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	3,610	448
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	3,665	454
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	3,721	460
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	3,777	467
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	3,853	474
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	3,954	482
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	4,036	491
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	4,082	500
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	4,097	509
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	4,115	521
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	4,206	533
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	4,696	547
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	5,365	560
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	5,640	571
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	5,688	586
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	5,680	599
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	5,562	610
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	5,331	623
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	4,986	633
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	4,802	643
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	4,713	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.

Lebanon

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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