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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Philippines	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	387	79,346	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	390	81,131	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	393	83,023	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	396	84,876	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	398	86,697	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	401	88,568	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	404	90,418	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	405	92,253	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	406	94,098	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	409	95,923	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	412	97,627	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	414	99,317	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	416	100,999	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	420	102,618	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	426	104,299	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	435	106,076	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	445	107,868	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	455	109,493	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	468	111,094	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	485	112,843	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	504	114,636	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	516	117,026	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	518	119,473	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	530	121,234	146,693

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.

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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