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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Paraguay	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	70	5,366	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	71	5,473	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	71	5,579	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	72	5,683	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	72	5,786	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	72	5,886	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	72	5,984	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	72	6,080	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	72	6,173	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	73	6,264	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	73	6,352	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	73	6,438	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	73	6,522	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	73	6,605	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	73	6,688	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	73	6,769	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	74	6,850	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	74	6,930	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	74	7,012	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	74	7,095	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	75	7,179	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	75	7,263	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	76	7,348	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	76	7,432	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 Dominica, Paraguay; the database as a whole is cited above.