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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 & HerzegovinaMaltaSwitzerland
3,8113877,258
3,9013907,296
3,9193937,332
3,9233967,384
3,9403987,438
3,9754017,488
3,9914047,532
3,9934057,579
3,9904067,647
3,9874097,738
3,9854127,825
3,9834147,884
3,9804167,959
3,9774208,044
3,9734268,137
3,9684358,237
3,9634458,332
3,9574558,423
3,9514688,502
3,9444858,565
3,9375048,626
3,9295168,689
3,9215188,756
3,8765308,834

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 Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.