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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Belgium	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	10,227	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	10,252	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	10,288	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	10,334	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	10,377	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	10,422	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	10,480	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	10,549	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	10,627	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	10,711	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	10,797	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	10,897	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	11,039	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	11,108	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	11,160	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	11,210	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	11,275	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	11,332	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	11,376	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	11,429	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	11,491	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	11,546	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	11,594	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	11,695	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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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 Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.