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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Ecuador	Finland
Dec 31, 1999	387	12,268	5,166
Dec 31, 2000	390	12,446	5,176
Dec 31, 2001	393	12,629	5,188
Dec 31, 2002	396	12,827	5,201
Dec 31, 2003	398	13,074	5,213
Dec 31, 2004	401	13,368	5,228
Dec 31, 2005	404	13,661	5,246
Dec 31, 2006	405	13,915	5,266
Dec 31, 2007	406	14,133	5,289
Dec 31, 2008	409	14,352	5,313
Dec 31, 2009	412	14,569	5,339
Dec 31, 2010	414	14,786	5,363
Dec 31, 2011	416	15,002	5,388
Dec 31, 2012	420	15,218	5,414
Dec 31, 2013	426	15,433	5,439
Dec 31, 2014	435	15,647	5,463
Dec 31, 2015	445	15,860	5,481
Dec 31, 2016	455	16,072	5,495
Dec 31, 2017	468	16,282	5,508
Dec 31, 2018	485	16,489	5,516
Dec 31, 2019	504	16,693	5,522
Dec 31, 2020	516	16,894	5,531
Dec 31, 2021	518	17,093	5,542
Dec 31, 2022	530	17,288	5,556

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

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.

Finland

1600–1860: Eloranta, J., Voutilainen, M. and Nummela, I. (2016). “Estimating Finnish Economic Growth Before 1860” mimeo.
1860-1960: R. Hjerppe, The Finnish Economy 1860-1985: Growth and Structural Change, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 1989, pp. 198-200.

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