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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	Romania	São Tomé & Príncipe
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	22,414	138
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	22,262	141
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	22,106	144
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	21,931	147
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	21,828	151
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	21,704	154
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	21,571	158
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	21,443	161
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	21,129	165
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	20,779	168
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	20,607	172
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	20,485	176
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	20,385	180
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	20,296	183
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	20,224	187
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	20,151	190
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	20,055	194
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	19,938	198
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	19,823	201
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	19,713	204
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	19,622	208
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	19,496	212
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	19,351	216
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	19,266	220

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.

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 São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.