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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	Lebanon	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	3,460	387
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	3,499	390
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	3,554	393
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	3,610	396
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	3,665	398
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	3,721	401
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	3,777	404
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	3,853	405
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	3,954	406
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	4,036	409
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	4,082	412
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	4,097	414
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	4,115	416
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	4,206	420
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	4,696	426
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	5,365	435
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	5,640	445
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	5,688	455
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	5,680	468
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	5,562	485
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	5,331	504
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	4,986	516
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	4,802	518
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	4,713	530

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 Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.