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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	Oman	Romania	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	2,348	22,414	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	2,403	22,262	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	2,457	22,106	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	2,510	21,931	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	2,562	21,828	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	2,613	21,704	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	2,663	21,571	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	2,713	21,443	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	2,764	21,129	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	2,816	20,779	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	2,871	20,607	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	2,928	20,485	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	2,986	20,385	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	3,047	20,296	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	3,110	20,224	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	3,174	20,151	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	3,240	20,055	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	3,307	19,938	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	3,375	19,823	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	3,444	19,713	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	3,512	19,622	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	3,582	19,496	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	3,651	19,351	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	3,696	19,266	3,876

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.

All data sources

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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