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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	Malta	Ecuador	Hong Kong SAR China
Dec 31, 1999	387	12,268	6,587
Dec 31, 2000	390	12,446	6,646
Dec 31, 2001	393	12,629	6,695
Dec 31, 2002	396	12,827	6,725
Dec 31, 2003	398	13,074	6,712
Dec 31, 2004	401	13,368	6,765
Dec 31, 2005	404	13,661	6,794
Dec 31, 2006	405	13,915	6,838
Dec 31, 2007	406	14,133	6,897
Dec 31, 2008	409	14,352	6,938
Dec 31, 2009	412	14,569	6,953
Dec 31, 2010	414	14,786	7,004
Dec 31, 2011	416	15,002	7,052
Dec 31, 2012	420	15,218	7,130
Dec 31, 2013	426	15,433	7,159
Dec 31, 2014	435	15,647	7,209
Dec 31, 2015	445	15,860	7,271
Dec 31, 2016	455	16,072	7,316
Dec 31, 2017	468	16,282	7,372
Dec 31, 2018	485	16,489	7,432
Dec 31, 2019	504	16,693	7,487
Dec 31, 2020	516	16,894	7,460
Dec 31, 2021	518	17,093	7,392
Dec 31, 2022	530	17,288	7,387

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.

No separate list is published for Malta, Hong Kong SAR China; the database as a whole is cited above.