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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Jordan	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	387	4,591	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	390	4,700	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	393	4,811	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	396	4,923	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	398	5,037	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	401	5,161	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	404	5,295	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	405	5,765	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	406	6,243	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	409	6,397	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	412	6,538	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	414	6,680	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	416	6,840	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	420	6,952	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	426	7,706	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	435	8,839	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	445	9,506	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	455	9,863	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	468	10,066	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	485	10,273	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	504	10,480	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	516	10,628	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	518	10,716	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	530	10,849	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

Jordan

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
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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.