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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	Poland	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	38,358	387
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	38,344	390
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	38,339	393
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	38,320	396
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	38,283	398
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	38,268	401
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	38,249	404
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	38,220	405
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	38,204	406
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	38,204	409
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	38,572	412
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	38,606	414
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	38,615	416
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	38,623	420
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	38,591	426
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	38,573	435
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	38,544	445
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	38,516	455
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	38,511	468
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	38,502	485
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	38,475	504
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	38,443	516
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	38,250	518
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	37,914	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.

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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