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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	Saudi Arabia	Germany
Dec 31, 1999	387	19,964	81,439
Dec 31, 2000	390	20,426	81,474
Dec 31, 2001	393	20,956	81,534
Dec 31, 2002	396	21,549	81,595
Dec 31, 2003	398	22,189	81,566
Dec 31, 2004	401	22,850	81,473
Dec 31, 2005	404	23,516	81,354
Dec 31, 2006	405	24,178	81,190
Dec 31, 2007	406	24,841	81,009
Dec 31, 2008	409	25,518	80,781
Dec 31, 2009	412	26,227	80,500
Dec 31, 2010	414	27,068	80,301
Dec 31, 2011	416	27,810	80,292
Dec 31, 2012	420	28,516	80,443
Dec 31, 2013	426	29,220	80,663
Dec 31, 2014	435	29,936	81,000
Dec 31, 2015	445	30,646	81,704
Dec 31, 2016	455	31,360	82,366
Dec 31, 2017	468	32,184	82,674
Dec 31, 2018	485	32,869	82,923
Dec 31, 2019	504	33,661	83,110
Dec 31, 2020	516	34,542	83,178
Dec 31, 2021	518	33,651	83,213
Dec 31, 2022	530	34,081	83,811

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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