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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	South Korea	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	387	46,617	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	390	47,008	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	393	47,370	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	396	47,645	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	398	47,892	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	401	48,083	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	404	48,185	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	405	48,438	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	406	48,684	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	409	49,055	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	412	49,308	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	414	49,554	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	416	49,937	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	420	50,200	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	426	50,429	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	435	50,747	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	445	51,015	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	455	51,218	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	468	51,362	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	485	51,585	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	504	51,765	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	516	51,836	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	518	51,745	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	530	51,731	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

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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.