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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Belgium	Luxembourg
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	10,227	433
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	10,252	438
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	10,288	443
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	10,334	448
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	10,377	454
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	10,422	460
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	10,480	467
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	10,549	474
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	10,627	482
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	10,711	491
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	10,797	500
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	10,897	509
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	11,039	521
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	11,108	533
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	11,160	547
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	11,210	560
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	11,275	571
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	11,332	586
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	11,376	599
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	11,429	610
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	11,491	623
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	11,546	633
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	11,594	643
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	11,695	651

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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.