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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Belgium	Trinidad & Tobago	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	10,227	1,301	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	10,252	1,303	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	10,288	1,308	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	10,334	1,314	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	10,377	1,320	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	10,422	1,326	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	10,480	1,332	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	10,549	1,338	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	10,627	1,344	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	10,711	1,352	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	10,797	1,359	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	10,897	1,365	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	11,039	1,372	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	11,108	1,379	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	11,160	1,386	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	11,210	1,392	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	11,275	1,399	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	11,332	1,405	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	11,376	1,411	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	11,429	1,436	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	11,491	1,452	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	11,546	1,448	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	11,594	1,450	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	11,695	1,456	19,266

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 Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.