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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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

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.

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;

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