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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	Thailand	Finland
Dec 31, 1999	387	59,748	5,166
Dec 31, 2000	390	60,165	5,176
Dec 31, 2001	393	60,746	5,188
Dec 31, 2002	396	61,323	5,201
Dec 31, 2003	398	61,884	5,213
Dec 31, 2004	401	62,425	5,228
Dec 31, 2005	404	62,956	5,246
Dec 31, 2006	405	63,467	5,266
Dec 31, 2007	406	63,937	5,289
Dec 31, 2008	409	64,381	5,313
Dec 31, 2009	412	64,804	5,339
Dec 31, 2010	414	65,208	5,363
Dec 31, 2011	416	65,599	5,388
Dec 31, 2012	420	65,970	5,414
Dec 31, 2013	426	66,332	5,439
Dec 31, 2014	435	66,673	5,463
Dec 31, 2015	445	66,975	5,481
Dec 31, 2016	455	67,250	5,495
Dec 31, 2017	468	67,506	5,508
Dec 31, 2018	485	67,750	5,516
Dec 31, 2019	504	67,975	5,522
Dec 31, 2020	516	68,180	5,531
Dec 31, 2021	518	68,366	5,542
Dec 31, 2022	530	68,457	5,556

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

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

Finland

1600–1860: Eloranta, J., Voutilainen, M. and Nummela, I. (2016). “Estimating Finnish Economic Growth Before 1860” mimeo.
1860-1960: R. Hjerppe, The Finnish Economy 1860-1985: Growth and Structural Change, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 1989, pp. 198-200.

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