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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	Ecuador	Germany	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	81,439	387
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	81,474	390
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	81,534	393
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	81,595	396
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	81,566	398
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	81,473	401
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	81,354	404
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	81,190	405
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	81,009	406
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	80,781	409
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	80,500	412
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	80,301	414
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	80,292	416
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	80,443	420
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	80,663	426
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	81,000	435
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	81,704	445
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	82,366	455
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	82,674	468
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	82,923	485
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	83,110	504
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	83,178	516
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	83,213	518
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	83,811	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

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.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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