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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Austria	Ecuador	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	273	8,039	12,268	387
Dec 31, 2000	274	8,059	12,446	390
Dec 31, 2001	275	8,090	12,629	393
Dec 31, 2002	276	8,130	12,827	396
Dec 31, 2003	278	8,166	13,074	398
Dec 31, 2004	279	8,217	13,368	401
Dec 31, 2005	280	8,274	13,661	404
Dec 31, 2006	281	8,317	13,915	405
Dec 31, 2007	282	8,344	14,133	406
Dec 31, 2008	283	8,370	14,352	409
Dec 31, 2009	285	8,390	14,569	412
Dec 31, 2010	286	8,410	14,786	414
Dec 31, 2011	287	8,438	15,002	416
Dec 31, 2012	288	8,476	15,218	420
Dec 31, 2013	289	8,527	15,433	426
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,594	15,647	435
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,680	15,860	445
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,791	16,072	455
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,847	16,282	468
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,890	16,489	485
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,930	16,693	504
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,969	16,894	516
Dec 31, 2021	295	9,004	17,093	518
Dec 31, 2022	295	9,107	17,288	530

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.

All data sources

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

Austria

1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

Ecuador

1833-1938: 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). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

No separate list is published for Barbados, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.