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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	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	2,348	22,414	387
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	2,403	22,262	390
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	2,457	22,106	393
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	2,510	21,931	396
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	2,562	21,828	398
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	2,613	21,704	401
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	2,663	21,571	404
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	2,713	21,443	405
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	2,764	21,129	406
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	2,816	20,779	409
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	2,871	20,607	412
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	2,928	20,485	414
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	2,986	20,385	416
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	3,047	20,296	420
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	3,110	20,224	426
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	3,174	20,151	435
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	3,240	20,055	445
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	3,307	19,938	455
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	3,375	19,823	468
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	3,444	19,713	485
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	3,512	19,622	504
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	3,582	19,496	516
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	3,651	19,351	518
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	3,696	19,266	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.

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.

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