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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	Thailand	Israel	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	5,927	387
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	6,088	390
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	6,236	393
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	6,366	396
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	6,484	398
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	6,603	401
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	6,723	404
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	6,846	405
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	6,972	406
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	7,100	409
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	7,226	412
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	7,360	414
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	7,498	416
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	7,637	420
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	7,781	426
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	7,931	435
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	8,091	445
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	8,251	455
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	8,412	468
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	8,576	485
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	8,742	504
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	8,899	516
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	9,047	518
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	9,188	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

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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; the database as a whole is cited above.