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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

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

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.