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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Indonesia	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	387	208,105	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	390	211,408	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	393	214,475	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	396	217,516	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	398	220,549	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	401	224,473	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	404	227,534	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	405	230,739	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	406	233,918	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	409	237,056	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	412	240,140	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	414	243,171	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	416	246,150	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	420	249,086	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	426	251,947	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	435	254,702	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	445	257,351	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	455	259,906	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	468	262,379	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	485	264,789	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	504	267,142	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	516	269,437	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	518	271,674	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	530	273,409	19,266

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

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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