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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Saudi Arabia	Greece	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	19,964	10,618	387
Dec 31, 2000	20,426	10,662	390
Dec 31, 2001	20,956	10,718	393
Dec 31, 2002	21,549	10,757	396
Dec 31, 2003	22,189	10,783	398
Dec 31, 2004	22,850	10,809	401
Dec 31, 2005	23,516	10,841	404
Dec 31, 2006	24,178	10,874	405
Dec 31, 2007	24,841	10,901	406
Dec 31, 2008	25,518	10,930	409
Dec 31, 2009	26,227	10,959	412
Dec 31, 2010	27,068	10,973	414
Dec 31, 2011	27,810	10,957	416
Dec 31, 2012	28,516	10,898	420
Dec 31, 2013	29,220	10,819	426
Dec 31, 2014	29,936	10,747	435
Dec 31, 2015	30,646	10,677	445
Dec 31, 2016	31,360	10,633	455
Dec 31, 2017	32,184	10,612	468
Dec 31, 2018	32,869	10,590	485
Dec 31, 2019	33,661	10,579	504
Dec 31, 2020	34,542	10,556	516
Dec 31, 2021	33,651	10,499	518
Dec 31, 2022	34,081	10,437	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

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

Greece

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
1833-1913: Kostelenos G., S. Petmezas, D. Vasiliou, E. Kounaris and M. Sfakianakis, (2007), "Gross Domestic Product 1830-1939", Sources of Economic History of Modern Greece: Quantitative data and statistical series 1830-1939, Historical Archives of the National Bank of Greece, Athens.
1913-1929: C. Clark, Conditions of Economic Progress, 3rd edition, Macmillan, London, 1957; 1929-38 GNP at factor cost from Ekonomikos Tachydromos, 22 May 1954; 1938-50 from OEEC, Europe and the World Economy, Paris 1960, p.116.
1929-1950: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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