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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Hong Kong SAR China	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	6,587	387
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	6,646	390
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	6,695	393
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	6,725	396
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	6,712	398
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	6,765	401
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	6,794	404
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	6,838	405
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	6,897	406
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	6,938	409
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	6,953	412
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	7,004	414
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	7,052	416
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	7,130	420
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	7,159	426
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	7,209	435
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	7,271	445
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	7,316	455
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	7,372	468
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	7,432	485
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	7,487	504
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	7,460	516
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	7,392	518
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	7,387	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.

No separate list is published for Hong Kong SAR China, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.