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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	Yemen	Israel
Dec 31, 1999	387	16,728	5,927
Dec 31, 2000	390	17,236	6,088
Dec 31, 2001	393	17,762	6,236
Dec 31, 2002	396	18,310	6,366
Dec 31, 2003	398	18,855	6,484
Dec 31, 2004	401	19,410	6,603
Dec 31, 2005	404	20,000	6,723
Dec 31, 2006	405	20,611	6,846
Dec 31, 2007	406	21,236	6,972
Dec 31, 2008	409	21,878	7,100
Dec 31, 2009	412	22,533	7,226
Dec 31, 2010	414	23,195	7,360
Dec 31, 2011	416	23,880	7,498
Dec 31, 2012	420	24,594	7,637
Dec 31, 2013	426	25,311	7,781
Dec 31, 2014	435	26,020	7,931
Dec 31, 2015	445	26,698	8,091
Dec 31, 2016	455	27,347	8,251
Dec 31, 2017	468	27,985	8,412
Dec 31, 2018	485	28,608	8,576
Dec 31, 2019	504	29,216	8,742
Dec 31, 2020	516	29,811	8,899
Dec 31, 2021	518	30,399	9,047
Dec 31, 2022	530	31,058	9,188

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

Israel

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

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