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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Italy	Belgium	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	56,940	10,227	627
Dec 31, 2000	56,966	10,252	659
Dec 31, 2001	57,004	10,288	691
Dec 31, 2002	57,114	10,334	724
Dec 31, 2003	57,423	10,377	757
Dec 31, 2004	57,852	10,422	850
Dec 31, 2005	58,191	10,480	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	58,424	10,549	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	58,781	10,627	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	59,236	10,711	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	59,580	10,797	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	59,844	10,897	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	60,052	11,039	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	60,216	11,108	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	60,337	11,160	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	60,346	11,210	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	60,255	11,275	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	60,140	11,332	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	60,027	11,376	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	59,902	11,429	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	59,754	11,491	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	59,464	11,546	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	59,158	11,594	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	58,966	11,695	2,559

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

Italy

1451-1861: Chilosi, D., & Ciccarelli, C. (2023). Italy in the Great Divergence: What Can We Learn from Engel’s Law (SSRN Scholarly Paper 4514091).
1861-1871 (North Italy): Malanima, P. (2010), “The long decline of a leading economy: GDP in central and northern Italy, 1300–1913” European Review of Economic History 15 (2): 169–219.
1871-1990: Baffigi, A. (2011).”Italian National Accounts, 1861-2011”, Banca d’Italia Economic History Working Papers 18.

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 Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.