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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Venezuela	Belgium	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	23,188	10,227	273
Dec 31, 2000	23,601	10,252	274
Dec 31, 2001	24,011	10,288	275
Dec 31, 2002	24,425	10,334	276
Dec 31, 2003	24,841	10,377	278
Dec 31, 2004	25,255	10,422	279
Dec 31, 2005	25,667	10,480	280
Dec 31, 2006	26,079	10,549	281
Dec 31, 2007	26,589	10,627	282
Dec 31, 2008	27,098	10,711	283
Dec 31, 2009	27,510	10,797	285
Dec 31, 2010	27,920	10,897	286
Dec 31, 2011	28,327	11,039	287
Dec 31, 2012	28,722	11,108	288
Dec 31, 2013	29,111	11,160	289
Dec 31, 2014	29,418	11,210	290
Dec 31, 2015	29,693	11,275	291
Dec 31, 2016	29,961	11,332	291
Dec 31, 2017	29,856	11,376	292
Dec 31, 2018	28,858	11,429	293
Dec 31, 2019	27,921	11,491	294
Dec 31, 2020	27,871	11,546	294
Dec 31, 2021	28,316	11,594	295
Dec 31, 2022	28,418	11,695	295

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

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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 Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.