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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	North Macedonia	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	433	2,006	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	438	2,017	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	443	2,026	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	448	2,011	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	454	2,018	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	460	2,024	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	467	2,028	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	474	2,031	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	482	2,035	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	491	2,038	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	500	2,042	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	509	2,046	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	521	2,049	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	533	2,052	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	547	2,055	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	560	2,058	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	571	2,061	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	586	2,063	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	599	2,065	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	610	2,067	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	623	2,068	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	633	2,065	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	643	2,057	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	651	2,048	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

North Macedonia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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; the database as a whole is cited above.