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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Laos	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	387	5,286	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	390	5,397	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	393	5,499	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	396	5,578	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	398	5,654	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	401	5,746	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	404	5,836	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	405	5,931	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	406	6,035	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	409	6,145	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	412	6,257	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	414	6,368	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	416	6,477	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	420	6,586	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	426	6,695	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	435	6,804	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	445	6,912	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	455	7,019	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	468	7,127	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	485	7,234	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	504	7,343	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	516	7,452	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	518	7,560	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	530	7,666	110,593

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

Egypt

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
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
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

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