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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Saudi Arabia	Greece
Dec 31, 1999	387	19,964	10,618
Dec 31, 2000	390	20,426	10,662
Dec 31, 2001	393	20,956	10,718
Dec 31, 2002	396	21,549	10,757
Dec 31, 2003	398	22,189	10,783
Dec 31, 2004	401	22,850	10,809
Dec 31, 2005	404	23,516	10,841
Dec 31, 2006	405	24,178	10,874
Dec 31, 2007	406	24,841	10,901
Dec 31, 2008	409	25,518	10,930
Dec 31, 2009	412	26,227	10,959
Dec 31, 2010	414	27,068	10,973
Dec 31, 2011	416	27,810	10,957
Dec 31, 2012	420	28,516	10,898
Dec 31, 2013	426	29,220	10,819
Dec 31, 2014	435	29,936	10,747
Dec 31, 2015	445	30,646	10,677
Dec 31, 2016	455	31,360	10,633
Dec 31, 2017	468	32,184	10,612
Dec 31, 2018	485	32,869	10,590
Dec 31, 2019	504	33,661	10,579
Dec 31, 2020	516	34,542	10,556
Dec 31, 2021	518	33,651	10,499
Dec 31, 2022	530	34,081	10,437

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

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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