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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Philippines	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	387	79,346	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	390	81,131	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	393	83,023	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	396	84,876	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	398	86,697	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	401	88,568	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	404	90,418	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	405	92,253	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	406	94,098	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	409	95,923	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	412	97,627	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	414	99,317	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	416	100,999	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	420	102,618	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	426	104,299	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	435	106,076	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	445	107,868	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	455	109,493	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	468	111,094	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	485	112,843	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	504	114,636	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	516	117,026	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	518	119,473	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	530	121,234	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

Philippines

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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.