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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Bosnia & HerzegovinaSwitzerlandDenmark
3,8117,2585,322
3,9017,2965,339
3,9197,3325,358
3,9237,3845,377
3,9407,4385,391
3,9757,4885,404
3,9917,5325,420
3,9937,5795,438
3,9907,6475,461
3,9877,7385,494
3,9857,8255,524
3,9837,8845,548
3,9807,9595,571
3,9778,0445,592
3,9738,1375,614
3,9688,2375,644
3,9638,3325,683
3,9578,4235,730
3,9518,5025,766
3,9448,5655,795
3,9378,6265,818
3,9298,6895,831
3,9218,7565,855
3,8768,8345,907

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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

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