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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Thailand	Japan	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	59,748	126,512	387
Dec 31, 2000	60,165	126,755	390
Dec 31, 2001	60,746	127,056	393
Dec 31, 2002	61,323	127,324	396
Dec 31, 2003	61,884	127,558	398
Dec 31, 2004	62,425	127,658	401
Dec 31, 2005	62,956	127,679	404
Dec 31, 2006	63,467	127,762	405
Dec 31, 2007	63,937	127,904	406
Dec 31, 2008	64,381	127,969	409
Dec 31, 2009	64,804	127,958	412
Dec 31, 2010	65,208	127,967	414
Dec 31, 2011	65,599	127,755	416
Dec 31, 2012	65,970	127,476	420
Dec 31, 2013	66,332	127,257	426
Dec 31, 2014	66,673	127,186	435
Dec 31, 2015	66,975	127,034	445
Dec 31, 2016	67,250	126,857	455
Dec 31, 2017	67,506	126,631	468
Dec 31, 2018	67,750	126,368	485
Dec 31, 2019	67,975	126,092	504
Dec 31, 2020	68,180	125,634	516
Dec 31, 2021	68,366	125,427	518
Dec 31, 2022	68,457	124,762	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

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

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