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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Portugal	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	387	10,144	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	390	10,215	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	393	10,288	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	396	10,344	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	398	10,383	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	401	10,408	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	404	10,427	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	405	10,446	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	406	10,467	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	409	10,482	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	412	10,492	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	414	10,497	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	416	10,481	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	420	10,439	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	426	10,382	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	435	10,326	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	445	10,283	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	455	10,251	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	468	10,226	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	485	10,209	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	504	10,212	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	516	10,223	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	518	10,214	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	530	10,200	17,288

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

Portugal

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
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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