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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Chile	Poland
Dec 31, 1999	387	15,140	38,358
Dec 31, 2000	390	15,340	38,344
Dec 31, 2001	393	15,513	38,339
Dec 31, 2002	396	15,686	38,320
Dec 31, 2003	398	15,859	38,283
Dec 31, 2004	401	16,029	38,268
Dec 31, 2005	404	16,222	38,249
Dec 31, 2006	405	16,364	38,220
Dec 31, 2007	406	16,536	38,204
Dec 31, 2008	409	16,700	38,204
Dec 31, 2009	412	16,864	38,572
Dec 31, 2010	414	16,999	38,606
Dec 31, 2011	416	17,189	38,615
Dec 31, 2012	420	17,378	38,623
Dec 31, 2013	426	17,545	38,591
Dec 31, 2014	435	17,720	38,573
Dec 31, 2015	445	17,904	38,544
Dec 31, 2016	455	18,099	38,516
Dec 31, 2017	468	18,350	38,511
Dec 31, 2018	485	18,681	38,502
Dec 31, 2019	504	19,035	38,475
Dec 31, 2020	516	19,385	38,443
Dec 31, 2021	518	19,604	38,250
Dec 31, 2022	530	19,715	37,914

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

Chile

1810–2004: Díaz, J.B. Lüders, R. and Wagner, G. (2007) Economia Chilena 1810 - 2000, Producto total y sectorial una nueva mirada, Pontificia universidad Catolica de Chile, Insituto de Economia, Documeno de Trabajo no. 315

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

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