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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Belgium	Lithuania
Dec 31, 1999	433	10,227	3,419
Dec 31, 2000	438	10,252	3,395
Dec 31, 2001	443	10,288	3,367
Dec 31, 2002	448	10,334	3,340
Dec 31, 2003	454	10,377	3,313
Dec 31, 2004	460	10,422	3,276
Dec 31, 2005	467	10,480	3,223
Dec 31, 2006	474	10,549	3,172
Dec 31, 2007	482	10,627	3,134
Dec 31, 2008	491	10,711	3,102
Dec 31, 2009	500	10,797	3,068
Dec 31, 2010	509	10,897	3,004
Dec 31, 2011	521	11,039	2,937
Dec 31, 2012	533	11,108	2,898
Dec 31, 2013	547	11,160	2,869
Dec 31, 2014	560	11,210	2,844
Dec 31, 2015	571	11,275	2,818
Dec 31, 2016	586	11,332	2,782
Dec 31, 2017	599	11,376	2,744
Dec 31, 2018	610	11,429	2,718
Dec 31, 2019	623	11,491	2,710
Dec 31, 2020	633	11,546	2,711
Dec 31, 2021	643	11,594	2,724
Dec 31, 2022	651	11,695	2,748

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 Luxembourg, Lithuania; the database as a whole is cited above.