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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Israel	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	387	5,927	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	390	6,088	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	393	6,236	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	396	6,366	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	398	6,484	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	401	6,603	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	404	6,723	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	405	6,846	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	406	6,972	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	409	7,100	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	412	7,226	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	414	7,360	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	416	7,498	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	420	7,637	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	426	7,781	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	435	7,931	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	445	8,091	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	455	8,251	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	468	8,412	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	485	8,576	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	504	8,742	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	516	8,899	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	518	9,047	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	530	9,188	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

Israel

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

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.