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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Japan	Yemen
Dec 31, 1999	387	126,512	16,728
Dec 31, 2000	390	126,755	17,236
Dec 31, 2001	393	127,056	17,762
Dec 31, 2002	396	127,324	18,310
Dec 31, 2003	398	127,558	18,855
Dec 31, 2004	401	127,658	19,410
Dec 31, 2005	404	127,679	20,000
Dec 31, 2006	405	127,762	20,611
Dec 31, 2007	406	127,904	21,236
Dec 31, 2008	409	127,969	21,878
Dec 31, 2009	412	127,958	22,533
Dec 31, 2010	414	127,967	23,195
Dec 31, 2011	416	127,755	23,880
Dec 31, 2012	420	127,476	24,594
Dec 31, 2013	426	127,257	25,311
Dec 31, 2014	435	127,186	26,020
Dec 31, 2015	445	127,034	26,698
Dec 31, 2016	455	126,857	27,347
Dec 31, 2017	468	126,631	27,985
Dec 31, 2018	485	126,368	28,608
Dec 31, 2019	504	126,092	29,216
Dec 31, 2020	516	125,634	29,811
Dec 31, 2021	518	125,427	30,399
Dec 31, 2022	530	124,762	31,058

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.

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