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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	South Korea	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	387	46,617	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	390	47,008	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	393	47,370	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	396	47,645	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	398	47,892	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	401	48,083	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	404	48,185	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	405	48,438	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	406	48,684	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	409	49,055	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	412	49,308	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	414	49,554	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	416	49,937	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	420	50,200	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	426	50,429	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	435	50,747	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	445	51,015	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	455	51,218	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	468	51,362	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	485	51,585	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	504	51,765	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	516	51,836	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	518	51,745	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	530	51,731	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

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

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.