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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	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	387	19,964	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	390	20,426	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	393	20,956	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	396	21,549	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	398	22,189	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	401	22,850	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	404	23,516	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	405	24,178	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	406	24,841	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	409	25,518	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	412	26,227	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	414	27,068	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	416	27,810	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	420	28,516	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	426	29,220	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	435	29,936	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	445	30,646	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	455	31,360	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	468	32,184	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	485	32,869	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	504	33,661	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	516	34,542	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	518	33,651	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	530	34,081	68,457

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

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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