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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	Oman	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	2,348	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	2,403	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	2,457	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	2,510	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	2,562	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	2,613	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	2,663	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	2,713	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	2,764	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	2,816	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	2,871	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	2,928	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	2,986	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	3,047	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	3,110	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	3,174	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	3,240	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	3,307	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	3,375	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	3,444	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	3,512	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	3,582	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	3,651	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	3,696	5,458

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.

Norway

1820–1930: Grytten, O.H. (2015). Norwegian gross domestic product by industry 1830 - 1930, Norges Bank Working paper 19/2015. Population from Maddison (2006)
1930-1950: Central Bureau of Statistics Norway, 1970 and Maddison, A. Monintoring the World Economy, 1995

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