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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Greece	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	10,618	387
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	10,662	390
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	10,718	393
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	10,757	396
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	10,783	398
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	10,809	401
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	10,841	404
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	10,874	405
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	10,901	406
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	10,930	409
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	10,959	412
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	10,973	414
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	10,957	416
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	10,898	420
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	10,819	426
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	10,747	435
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	10,677	445
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	10,633	455
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	10,612	468
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	10,590	485
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	10,579	504
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	10,556	516
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	10,499	518
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	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

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.

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.