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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Lebanon	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	387	3,460	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	390	3,499	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	393	3,554	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	396	3,610	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	398	3,665	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	401	3,721	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	404	3,777	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	405	3,853	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	406	3,954	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	409	4,036	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	412	4,082	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	414	4,097	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	416	4,115	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	420	4,206	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	426	4,696	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	435	5,365	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	445	5,640	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	455	5,688	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	468	5,680	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	485	5,562	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	504	5,331	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	516	4,986	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	518	4,802	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	530	4,713	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

Lebanon

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

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.