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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date MaltaSaudi ArabiaSwitzerland
38719,9647,258
39020,4267,296
39320,9567,332
39621,5497,384
39822,1897,438
40122,8507,488
40423,5167,532
40524,1787,579
40624,8417,647
40925,5187,738
41226,2277,825
41427,0687,884
41627,8107,959
42028,5168,044
42629,2208,137
43529,9368,237
44530,6468,332
45531,3608,423
46832,1848,502
48532,8698,565
50433,6618,626
51634,5428,689
51833,6518,756
53034,0818,834

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

Saudi Arabia

  • 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

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.