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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 & HerzegovinaSwitzerlandThailand
3,8117,25859,748
3,9017,29660,165
3,9197,33260,746
3,9237,38461,323
3,9407,43861,884
3,9757,48862,425
3,9917,53262,956
3,9937,57963,467
3,9907,64763,937
3,9877,73864,381
3,9857,82564,804
3,9837,88465,208
3,9807,95965,599
3,9778,04465,970
3,9738,13766,332
3,9688,23766,673
3,9638,33266,975
3,9578,42367,250
3,9518,50267,506
3,9448,56567,750
3,9378,62667,975
3,9298,68968,180
3,9218,75668,366
3,8768,83468,457

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

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