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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Spain	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	387	40,378	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	390	40,563	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	393	40,775	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	396	41,433	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	398	42,205	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	401	42,869	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	404	43,672	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	405	44,370	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	406	45,246	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	409	45,993	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	412	46,378	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	414	46,573	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	416	46,746	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	420	46,777	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	426	46,603	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	435	46,465	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	445	46,420	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	455	46,460	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	468	46,543	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	485	46,739	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	504	47,116	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	516	47,366	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	518	47,342	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	530	47,625	17,288

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

Spain

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
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)

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; the database as a whole is cited above.