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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Russia	Bangladesh
Dec 31, 1999	387	147,218	132,907
Dec 31, 2000	390	146,600	135,207
Dec 31, 2001	393	145,980	137,420
Dec 31, 2002	396	145,310	139,573
Dec 31, 2003	398	144,652	141,650
Dec 31, 2004	401	144,071	143,644
Dec 31, 2005	404	143,522	145,546
Dec 31, 2006	405	143,053	147,376
Dec 31, 2007	406	142,809	149,047
Dec 31, 2008	409	142,746	150,562
Dec 31, 2009	412	142,789	152,189
Dec 31, 2010	414	142,853	153,927
Dec 31, 2011	416	142,964	155,634
Dec 31, 2012	420	143,205	157,326
Dec 31, 2013	426	143,510	158,999
Dec 31, 2014	435	146,094	160,650
Dec 31, 2015	445	146,410	162,273
Dec 31, 2016	455	146,678	163,938
Dec 31, 2017	468	146,846	165,655
Dec 31, 2018	485	146,834	167,358
Dec 31, 2019	504	146,768	169,045
Dec 31, 2020	516	146,463	170,709
Dec 31, 2021	518	145,849	172,354
Dec 31, 2022	530	146,693	174,217

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

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.

Bangladesh

1900-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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