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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Mexico	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	97,242	387
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	98,403	390
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	99,599	393
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	100,863	396
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	102,132	398
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	103,334	401
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	104,508	404
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	105,738	405
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	107,083	406
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	108,554	409
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	110,061	412
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	111,468	414
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	112,826	416
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	114,163	420
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	115,471	426
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	116,757	435
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	118,017	445
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	117,444	455
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	118,799	468
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	120,289	485
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	121,872	504
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	123,260	516
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	124,462	518
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	125,247	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.

Mexico

1550–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Prados de la Escosura, L., (2009), ‘Lost decades? Economic performance in post-independence Latin America’, Journal of Latin America Studies, 41, pp. 279–307. (updated data)
1870-1895: Bértola, L., & Ocampo, J. A. (2012). The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford University Press, Table A.2
1895–2003: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350

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