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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Egypt	Albania	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	66,001	3,085	387
Dec 31, 2000	67,377	3,065	390
Dec 31, 2001	68,790	3,047	393
Dec 31, 2002	70,269	3,038	396
Dec 31, 2003	71,785	3,026	398
Dec 31, 2004	73,298	3,014	401
Dec 31, 2005	74,832	2,998	404
Dec 31, 2006	76,432	2,979	405
Dec 31, 2007	78,140	2,957	406
Dec 31, 2008	79,945	2,934	409
Dec 31, 2009	81,840	2,915	412
Dec 31, 2010	83,844	2,900	414
Dec 31, 2011	85,969	2,892	416
Dec 31, 2012	88,198	2,888	420
Dec 31, 2013	90,566	2,882	426
Dec 31, 2014	93,009	2,876	435
Dec 31, 2015	95,432	2,868	445
Dec 31, 2016	97,882	2,863	455
Dec 31, 2017	100,303	2,861	468
Dec 31, 2018	102,617	2,854	485
Dec 31, 2019	104,816	2,842	504
Dec 31, 2020	106,893	2,825	516
Dec 31, 2021	108,871	2,799	518
Dec 31, 2022	110,593	2,787	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

Egypt

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
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 Albania, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.