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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Italy	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	387	56,940	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	390	56,966	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	393	57,004	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	396	57,114	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	398	57,423	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	401	57,852	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	404	58,191	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	405	58,424	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	406	58,781	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	409	59,236	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	412	59,580	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	414	59,844	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	416	60,052	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	420	60,216	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	426	60,337	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	435	60,346	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	445	60,255	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	455	60,140	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	468	60,027	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	485	59,902	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	504	59,754	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	516	59,464	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	518	59,158	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	530	58,966	10,437

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

Italy

1451-1861: Chilosi, D., & Ciccarelli, C. (2023). Italy in the Great Divergence: What Can We Learn from Engel’s Law (SSRN Scholarly Paper 4514091).
1861-1871 (North Italy): Malanima, P. (2010), “The long decline of a leading economy: GDP in central and northern Italy, 1300–1913” European Review of Economic History 15 (2): 169–219.
1871-1990: Baffigi, A. (2011).”Italian National Accounts, 1861-2011”, Banca d’Italia Economic History Working Papers 18.

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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