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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	Russia	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	147,218	387
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	146,600	390
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	145,980	393
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	145,310	396
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	144,652	398
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	144,071	401
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	143,522	404
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	143,053	405
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	142,809	406
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	142,746	409
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	142,789	412
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	142,853	414
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	142,964	416
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	143,205	420
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	143,510	426
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	146,094	435
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	146,410	445
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	146,678	455
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	146,846	468
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	146,834	485
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	146,768	504
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	146,463	516
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	145,849	518
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	146,693	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.

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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