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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Portugal	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	10,144	387
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	10,215	390
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	10,288	393
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	10,344	396
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	10,383	398
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	10,408	401
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	10,427	404
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	10,446	405
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	10,467	406
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	10,482	409
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	10,492	412
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	10,497	414
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	10,481	416
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	10,439	420
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	10,382	426
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	10,326	435
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	10,283	445
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	10,251	455
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	10,226	468
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	10,209	485
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	10,212	504
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	10,223	516
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	10,214	518
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	10,200	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.

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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