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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Ecuador	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	387	12,268	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	390	12,446	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	393	12,629	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	396	12,827	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	398	13,074	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	401	13,368	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	404	13,661	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	405	13,915	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	406	14,133	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	409	14,352	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	412	14,569	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	414	14,786	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	416	15,002	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	420	15,218	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	426	15,433	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	435	15,647	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	445	15,860	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	455	16,072	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	468	16,282	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	485	16,489	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	504	16,693	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	516	16,894	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	518	17,093	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	530	17,288	10,849

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.

Jordan

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
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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