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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Jordan	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	4,591	387
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	4,700	390
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	4,811	393
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	4,923	396
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	5,037	398
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	5,161	401
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	5,295	404
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	5,765	405
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	6,243	406
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	6,397	409
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	6,538	412
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	6,680	414
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	6,840	416
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	6,952	420
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	7,706	426
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	8,839	435
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	9,506	445
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	9,863	455
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	10,066	468
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	10,273	485
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	10,480	504
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	10,628	516
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	10,716	518
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	10,849	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.

Jordan

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
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.