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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	Malta	China
Dec 31, 1999	277	387	1,248,899
Dec 31, 2000	281	390	1,258,401
Dec 31, 2001	285	393	1,267,178
Dec 31, 2002	288	396	1,275,379
Dec 31, 2003	289	398	1,283,064
Dec 31, 2004	293	401	1,290,620
Dec 31, 2005	296	404	1,298,245
Dec 31, 2006	304	405	1,305,116
Dec 31, 2007	311	406	1,311,877
Dec 31, 2008	319	409	1,318,559
Dec 31, 2009	319	412	1,324,993
Dec 31, 2010	318	414	1,331,357
Dec 31, 2011	319	416	1,339,549
Dec 31, 2012	321	420	1,349,537
Dec 31, 2013	324	426	1,357,520
Dec 31, 2014	327	435	1,366,654
Dec 31, 2015	331	445	1,373,406
Dec 31, 2016	335	455	1,382,401
Dec 31, 2017	343	468	1,390,136
Dec 31, 2018	353	485	1,395,398
Dec 31, 2019	361	504	1,400,035
Dec 31, 2020	366	516	1,402,060
Dec 31, 2021	372	518	1,402,537
Dec 31, 2022	380	530	1,401,693

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

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.

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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