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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Romania	Moldova	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	22,414	4,244	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	22,262	4,199	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	22,106	4,154	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	21,931	4,108	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	21,828	4,059	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	21,704	4,013	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	21,571	3,966	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	21,443	3,919	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	21,129	3,873	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	20,779	3,829	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	20,607	3,788	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	20,485	3,748	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	20,385	3,709	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	20,296	3,671	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	20,224	3,633	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	20,151	3,595	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	20,055	3,558	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	19,938	3,522	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	19,823	3,485	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	19,713	3,448	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	19,622	3,412	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	19,496	3,376	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	19,351	3,339	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	19,266	3,570	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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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 Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.