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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Ecuador	Albania	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	277	12,268	3,085	387
Dec 31, 2000	281	12,446	3,065	390
Dec 31, 2001	285	12,629	3,047	393
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,827	3,038	396
Dec 31, 2003	289	13,074	3,026	398
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,368	3,014	401
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,661	2,998	404
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,915	2,979	405
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,133	2,957	406
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,352	2,934	409
Dec 31, 2009	319	14,569	2,915	412
Dec 31, 2010	318	14,786	2,900	414
Dec 31, 2011	319	15,002	2,892	416
Dec 31, 2012	321	15,218	2,888	420
Dec 31, 2013	324	15,433	2,882	426
Dec 31, 2014	327	15,647	2,876	435
Dec 31, 2015	331	15,860	2,868	445
Dec 31, 2016	335	16,072	2,863	455
Dec 31, 2017	343	16,282	2,861	468
Dec 31, 2018	353	16,489	2,854	485
Dec 31, 2019	361	16,693	2,842	504
Dec 31, 2020	366	16,894	2,825	516
Dec 31, 2021	372	17,093	2,799	518
Dec 31, 2022	380	17,288	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.

All data sources

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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.

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