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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Trinidad & Tobago	Moldova	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	1,301	4,244	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	1,303	4,199	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	1,308	4,154	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	1,314	4,108	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	1,320	4,059	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	1,326	4,013	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	1,332	3,966	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	1,338	3,919	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	1,344	3,873	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	1,352	3,829	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	1,359	3,788	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	1,365	3,748	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	1,372	3,709	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	1,379	3,671	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	1,386	3,633	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	1,392	3,595	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	1,399	3,558	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	1,405	3,522	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	1,411	3,485	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	1,436	3,448	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	1,452	3,412	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	1,448	3,376	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	1,450	3,339	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	1,456	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

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 Trinidad & Tobago, Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.