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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Türkiye	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	387	65,020	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	390	65,949	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	393	66,869	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	396	67,728	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	398	68,541	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	401	69,366	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	404	70,224	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	405	71,106	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	406	71,992	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	409	72,909	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	412	73,922	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	414	75,054	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	416	76,164	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	420	77,141	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	426	78,138	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	435	79,199	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	445	80,262	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	455	81,350	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	468	82,412	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	485	83,535	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	504	84,737	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	516	85,564	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	518	86,346	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	530	87,201	17,288

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.

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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