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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Puerto Rico	Jordan
Dec 31, 1999	387	3,800	4,591
Dec 31, 2000	390	3,811	4,700
Dec 31, 2001	393	3,819	4,811
Dec 31, 2002	396	3,824	4,923
Dec 31, 2003	398	3,826	5,037
Dec 31, 2004	401	3,827	5,161
Dec 31, 2005	404	3,822	5,295
Dec 31, 2006	405	3,805	5,765
Dec 31, 2007	406	3,783	6,243
Dec 31, 2008	409	3,761	6,397
Dec 31, 2009	412	3,741	6,538
Dec 31, 2010	414	3,722	6,680
Dec 31, 2011	416	3,679	6,840
Dec 31, 2012	420	3,636	6,952
Dec 31, 2013	426	3,589	7,706
Dec 31, 2014	435	3,534	8,839
Dec 31, 2015	445	3,473	9,506
Dec 31, 2016	455	3,411	9,863
Dec 31, 2017	468	3,352	10,066
Dec 31, 2018	485	3,295	10,273
Dec 31, 2019	504	3,268	10,480
Dec 31, 2020	516	3,247	10,628
Dec 31, 2021	518	3,232	10,716
Dec 31, 2022	530	3,228	10,849

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

Jordan

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
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, Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.