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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Russia	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	147,218	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	146,600	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	145,980	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	145,310	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	144,652	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	144,071	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	143,522	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	143,053	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	142,809	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	142,746	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	142,789	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	142,853	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	142,964	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	143,205	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	143,510	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	146,094	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	146,410	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	146,678	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	146,846	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	146,834	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	146,768	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	146,463	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	145,849	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	146,693	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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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.