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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	Oman	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	2,348	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	2,403	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	2,457	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	2,510	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	2,562	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	2,613	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	2,663	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	2,713	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	2,764	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	2,816	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	2,871	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	2,928	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	2,986	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	3,047	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	3,110	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	3,174	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	3,240	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	3,307	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	3,375	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	3,444	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	3,512	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	3,582	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	3,651	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	3,696	51,332

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.

Colombia

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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