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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Ecuador	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	387	12,268	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	390	12,446	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	393	12,629	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	396	12,827	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	398	13,074	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	401	13,368	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	404	13,661	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	405	13,915	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	406	14,133	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	409	14,352	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	412	14,569	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	414	14,786	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	416	15,002	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	420	15,218	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	426	15,433	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	435	15,647	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	445	15,860	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	455	16,072	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	468	16,282	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	485	16,489	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	504	16,693	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	516	16,894	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	518	17,093	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	530	17,288	10,437

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.

Greece

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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