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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Thailand	Russia
Dec 31, 1999	387	59,748	147,218
Dec 31, 2000	390	60,165	146,600
Dec 31, 2001	393	60,746	145,980
Dec 31, 2002	396	61,323	145,310
Dec 31, 2003	398	61,884	144,652
Dec 31, 2004	401	62,425	144,071
Dec 31, 2005	404	62,956	143,522
Dec 31, 2006	405	63,467	143,053
Dec 31, 2007	406	63,937	142,809
Dec 31, 2008	409	64,381	142,746
Dec 31, 2009	412	64,804	142,789
Dec 31, 2010	414	65,208	142,853
Dec 31, 2011	416	65,599	142,964
Dec 31, 2012	420	65,970	143,205
Dec 31, 2013	426	66,332	143,510
Dec 31, 2014	435	66,673	146,094
Dec 31, 2015	445	66,975	146,410
Dec 31, 2016	455	67,250	146,678
Dec 31, 2017	468	67,506	146,846
Dec 31, 2018	485	67,750	146,834
Dec 31, 2019	504	67,975	146,768
Dec 31, 2020	516	68,180	146,463
Dec 31, 2021	518	68,366	145,849
Dec 31, 2022	530	68,457	146,693

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

Russia

1860-1885: Kuboniwa, M. (2019). Estimating GDP and Foreign Rents of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Soviet Union and Present-Day Russia. In M. Kuboniwa, Y. Nakamura, K. Kumo, & Y. Shida (Eds.), Russian Economic Development over Three Centuries: New Data and Inferences (pp. 421–438). Springer.

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