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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	Nepal	Ecuador	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	23,087	12,268	387
Dec 31, 2000	23,487	12,446	390
Dec 31, 2001	23,887	12,629	393
Dec 31, 2002	24,273	12,827	396
Dec 31, 2003	24,645	13,074	398
Dec 31, 2004	24,989	13,368	401
Dec 31, 2005	25,255	13,661	404
Dec 31, 2006	25,484	13,915	405
Dec 31, 2007	25,732	14,133	406
Dec 31, 2008	25,998	14,352	409
Dec 31, 2009	26,298	14,569	412
Dec 31, 2010	26,664	14,786	414
Dec 31, 2011	27,081	15,002	416
Dec 31, 2012	27,505	15,218	420
Dec 31, 2013	27,917	15,433	426
Dec 31, 2014	28,311	15,647	435
Dec 31, 2015	28,678	15,860	445
Dec 31, 2016	29,034	16,072	455
Dec 31, 2017	29,384	16,282	468
Dec 31, 2018	29,718	16,489	485
Dec 31, 2019	30,057	16,693	504
Dec 31, 2020	30,595	16,894	516
Dec 31, 2021	31,311	17,093	518
Dec 31, 2022	31,845	17,288	530

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

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 Nepal, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.