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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Ecuador	Saudi Arabia	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	12,268	19,964	387
Dec 31, 2000	12,446	20,426	390
Dec 31, 2001	12,629	20,956	393
Dec 31, 2002	12,827	21,549	396
Dec 31, 2003	13,074	22,189	398
Dec 31, 2004	13,368	22,850	401
Dec 31, 2005	13,661	23,516	404
Dec 31, 2006	13,915	24,178	405
Dec 31, 2007	14,133	24,841	406
Dec 31, 2008	14,352	25,518	409
Dec 31, 2009	14,569	26,227	412
Dec 31, 2010	14,786	27,068	414
Dec 31, 2011	15,002	27,810	416
Dec 31, 2012	15,218	28,516	420
Dec 31, 2013	15,433	29,220	426
Dec 31, 2014	15,647	29,936	435
Dec 31, 2015	15,860	30,646	445
Dec 31, 2016	16,072	31,360	455
Dec 31, 2017	16,282	32,184	468
Dec 31, 2018	16,489	32,869	485
Dec 31, 2019	16,693	33,661	504
Dec 31, 2020	16,894	34,542	516
Dec 31, 2021	17,093	33,651	518
Dec 31, 2022	17,288	34,081	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.

Saudi Arabia

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.