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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Burkina Faso	Barbados	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	11,075	273	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	11,405	274	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	11,828	275	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	12,380	276	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	12,829	278	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	13,178	279	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	13,540	280	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	13,917	281	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	14,309	282	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	14,722	283	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	15,152	285	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	15,600	286	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	16,064	287	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	16,563	288	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	17,072	289	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	17,575	290	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	18,094	291	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	18,621	291	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	19,157	292	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	19,698	293	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	20,242	294	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	20,788	294	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	21,336	295	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	21,889	295	11,695

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.

No separate list is published for Burkina Faso, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.