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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Japan	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	387	126,512	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	390	126,755	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	393	127,056	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	396	127,324	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	398	127,558	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	401	127,658	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	404	127,679	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	405	127,762	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	406	127,904	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	409	127,969	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	412	127,958	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	414	127,967	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	416	127,755	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	420	127,476	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	426	127,257	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	435	127,186	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	445	127,034	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	455	126,857	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	468	126,631	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	485	126,368	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	504	126,092	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	516	125,634	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	518	125,427	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	530	124,762	11,695

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

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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