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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Greece	Saudi Arabia	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	10,618	19,964	387
Dec 31, 2000	10,662	20,426	390
Dec 31, 2001	10,718	20,956	393
Dec 31, 2002	10,757	21,549	396
Dec 31, 2003	10,783	22,189	398
Dec 31, 2004	10,809	22,850	401
Dec 31, 2005	10,841	23,516	404
Dec 31, 2006	10,874	24,178	405
Dec 31, 2007	10,901	24,841	406
Dec 31, 2008	10,930	25,518	409
Dec 31, 2009	10,959	26,227	412
Dec 31, 2010	10,973	27,068	414
Dec 31, 2011	10,957	27,810	416
Dec 31, 2012	10,898	28,516	420
Dec 31, 2013	10,819	29,220	426
Dec 31, 2014	10,747	29,936	435
Dec 31, 2015	10,677	30,646	445
Dec 31, 2016	10,633	31,360	455
Dec 31, 2017	10,612	32,184	468
Dec 31, 2018	10,590	32,869	485
Dec 31, 2019	10,579	33,661	504
Dec 31, 2020	10,556	34,542	516
Dec 31, 2021	10,499	33,651	518
Dec 31, 2022	10,437	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

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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.