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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Iraq	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	22,076	387
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	22,748	390
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	23,440	393
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	24,212	396
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	24,979	398
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	25,726	401
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	26,531	404
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	26,706	405
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	26,429	406
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	26,969	409
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	28,024	412
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	28,956	414
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	29,974	416
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	31,321	420
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	32,779	426
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	33,857	435
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	34,674	445
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	35,437	455
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	36,200	468
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	37,015	485
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	37,846	504
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	38,673	516
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	39,491	518
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	40,364	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

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.

Iraq

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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