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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 & HerzegovinaSwitzerlandSudan
3,8117,25826,168
3,9017,29626,771
3,9197,33227,387
3,9237,38428,017
3,9407,43828,662
3,9757,48829,321
3,9917,53229,996
3,9937,57930,686
3,9907,64731,393
3,9877,73832,137
3,9857,82533,078
3,9837,88433,891
3,9807,95934,568
3,9778,04435,293
3,9738,13736,093
3,9688,23737,058
3,9638,33238,165
3,9578,42339,294
3,9518,50240,512
3,9448,56541,764
3,9378,62642,952
3,9298,68944,121
3,9218,75645,290
3,8768,83446,498

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 Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.