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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Malta	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	277	387	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	281	390	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	285	393	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	288	396	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	289	398	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	293	401	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	296	404	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	304	405	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	311	406	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	319	409	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	319	412	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	318	414	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	319	416	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	321	420	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	324	426	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	327	435	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	331	445	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	335	455	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	343	468	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	353	485	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	361	504	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	366	516	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	372	518	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	380	530	51,332

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.

Colombia

1800 - 1870: 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)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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