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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	Türkiye	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	65,020	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	65,949	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	66,869	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	67,728	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	68,541	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	69,366	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	70,224	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	71,106	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	71,992	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	72,909	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	73,922	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	75,054	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	76,164	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	77,141	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	78,138	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	79,199	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	80,262	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	81,350	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	82,412	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	83,535	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	84,737	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	85,564	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	86,346	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	87,201	3,570

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.

Türkiye

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
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

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