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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Seychelles	Laos	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	78	5,286	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	79	5,397	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	80	5,499	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	81	5,578	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	82	5,654	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	83	5,746	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	84	5,836	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	85	5,931	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	86	6,035	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	87	6,145	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	87	6,257	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	88	6,368	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	89	6,477	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	90	6,586	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	91	6,695	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	92	6,804	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	92	6,912	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	93	7,019	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	94	7,127	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	95	7,234	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	96	7,343	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	97	7,452	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	98	7,560	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	98	7,666	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

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 Seychelles, Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.