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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Türkiye	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	387	65,020	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	390	65,949	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	393	66,869	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	396	67,728	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	398	68,541	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	401	69,366	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	404	70,224	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	405	71,106	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	406	71,992	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	409	72,909	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	412	73,922	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	414	75,054	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	416	76,164	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	420	77,141	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	426	78,138	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	435	79,199	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	445	80,262	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	455	81,350	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	468	82,412	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	485	83,535	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	504	84,737	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	516	85,564	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	518	86,346	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	530	87,201	8,834

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

Türkiye

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
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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