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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Poland	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	387	38,358	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	390	38,344	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	393	38,339	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	396	38,320	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	398	38,283	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	401	38,268	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	404	38,249	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	405	38,220	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	406	38,204	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	409	38,204	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	412	38,572	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	414	38,606	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	416	38,615	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	420	38,623	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	426	38,591	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	435	38,573	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	445	38,544	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	455	38,516	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	468	38,511	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	485	38,502	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	504	38,475	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	516	38,443	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	518	38,250	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	530	37,914	8,834

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

Poland

1409–1913: Malinowski, M. and Van Zanden (2017), “National income and its distribution in preindustrial Poland in a global perspective” Cliometrica, Volume 11, Issue 3, pp 375–40
1913-1929: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1929-1938: K. Laski, Akumulacja i spozycie w procesie uprzemyslowienia Polski Ludowej, Ksiazka i Wiedza, Warsaw, 1956, pp. 86-90
1937-1950: T.P. Alton (1970), p. 46,

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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