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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Ecuador	Türkiye
Dec 31, 1999	387	12,268	65,020
Dec 31, 2000	390	12,446	65,949
Dec 31, 2001	393	12,629	66,869
Dec 31, 2002	396	12,827	67,728
Dec 31, 2003	398	13,074	68,541
Dec 31, 2004	401	13,368	69,366
Dec 31, 2005	404	13,661	70,224
Dec 31, 2006	405	13,915	71,106
Dec 31, 2007	406	14,133	71,992
Dec 31, 2008	409	14,352	72,909
Dec 31, 2009	412	14,569	73,922
Dec 31, 2010	414	14,786	75,054
Dec 31, 2011	416	15,002	76,164
Dec 31, 2012	420	15,218	77,141
Dec 31, 2013	426	15,433	78,138
Dec 31, 2014	435	15,647	79,199
Dec 31, 2015	445	15,860	80,262
Dec 31, 2016	455	16,072	81,350
Dec 31, 2017	468	16,282	82,412
Dec 31, 2018	485	16,489	83,535
Dec 31, 2019	504	16,693	84,737
Dec 31, 2020	516	16,894	85,564
Dec 31, 2021	518	17,093	86,346
Dec 31, 2022	530	17,288	87,201

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.

Türkiye

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
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

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