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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Belgium	Sierra Leone
Dec 31, 1999	70	10,227	3,736
Dec 31, 2000	71	10,252	3,809
Dec 31, 2001	71	10,288	4,043
Dec 31, 2002	72	10,334	4,287
Dec 31, 2003	72	10,377	4,466
Dec 31, 2004	72	10,422	4,602
Dec 31, 2005	72	10,480	4,708
Dec 31, 2006	72	10,549	4,818
Dec 31, 2007	72	10,627	4,918
Dec 31, 2008	73	10,711	5,023
Dec 31, 2009	73	10,797	5,132
Dec 31, 2010	73	10,897	5,246
Dec 31, 2011	73	11,039	5,364
Dec 31, 2012	73	11,108	5,486
Dec 31, 2013	73	11,160	5,613
Dec 31, 2014	73	11,210	5,744
Dec 31, 2015	74	11,275	5,879
Dec 31, 2016	74	11,332	6,019
Dec 31, 2017	74	11,376	6,163
Dec 31, 2018	74	11,429	6,312
Dec 31, 2019	75	11,491	6,461
Dec 31, 2020	75	11,546	6,611
Dec 31, 2021	76	11,594	6,761
Dec 31, 2022	76	11,695	6,910

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 Dominica, Sierra Leone; the database as a whole is cited above.