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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Romania	Albania	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	387	22,414	3,085	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	390	22,262	3,065	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	393	22,106	3,047	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	396	21,931	3,038	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	398	21,828	3,026	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	401	21,704	3,014	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	404	21,571	2,998	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	405	21,443	2,979	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	406	21,129	2,957	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	409	20,779	2,934	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	412	20,607	2,915	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	414	20,485	2,900	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	416	20,385	2,892	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	420	20,296	2,888	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	426	20,224	2,882	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	435	20,151	2,876	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	445	20,055	2,868	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	455	19,938	2,863	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	468	19,823	2,861	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	485	19,713	2,854	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	504	19,622	2,842	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	516	19,496	2,825	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	518	19,351	2,799	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	530	19,266	2,787	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.

All data sources

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.