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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Australia	Switzerland	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	18,692	7,258	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	18,907	7,296	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	19,151	7,332	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	19,371	7,384	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	19,595	7,438	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	19,805	7,488	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	20,048	7,532	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	20,320	7,579	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	20,694	7,647	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	21,113	7,738	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	21,553	7,825	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	21,891	7,884	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	22,197	7,959	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	22,588	8,044	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	22,980	8,137	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	23,326	8,237	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	23,664	8,332	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	24,036	8,423	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	24,445	8,502	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	24,823	8,565	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	25,204	8,626	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	25,529	8,689	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	25,574	8,756	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	25,826	8,834	51,332

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

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

Switzerland

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
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

Colombia

1800 - 1870: 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)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978