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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Brazil	Greece	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	174,320	10,618	387
Dec 31, 2000	176,902	10,662	390
Dec 31, 2001	179,389	10,718	393
Dec 31, 2002	181,721	10,757	396
Dec 31, 2003	183,970	10,783	398
Dec 31, 2004	186,165	10,809	401
Dec 31, 2005	188,330	10,841	404
Dec 31, 2006	190,438	10,874	405
Dec 31, 2007	192,450	10,901	406
Dec 31, 2008	194,458	10,930	409
Dec 31, 2009	196,464	10,959	412
Dec 31, 2010	198,408	10,973	414
Dec 31, 2011	200,152	10,957	416
Dec 31, 2012	201,894	10,898	420
Dec 31, 2013	203,614	10,819	426
Dec 31, 2014	205,358	10,747	435
Dec 31, 2015	207,148	10,677	445
Dec 31, 2016	208,859	10,633	455
Dec 31, 2017	210,537	10,612	468
Dec 31, 2018	212,258	10,590	485
Dec 31, 2019	213,940	10,579	504
Dec 31, 2020	215,577	10,556	516
Dec 31, 2021	216,720	10,499	518
Dec 31, 2022	217,718	10,437	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.

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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

Brazil

1800 - 1870: 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)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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