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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 & HerzegovinaPuerto RicoSwitzerland
3,8113,8007,258
3,9013,8117,296
3,9193,8197,332
3,9233,8247,384
3,9403,8267,438
3,9753,8277,488
3,9913,8227,532
3,9933,8057,579
3,9903,7837,647
3,9873,7617,738
3,9853,7417,825
3,9833,7227,884
3,9803,6797,959
3,9773,6368,044
3,9733,5898,137
3,9683,5348,237
3,9633,4738,332
3,9573,4118,423
3,9513,3528,502
3,9443,2958,565
3,9373,2688,626
3,9293,2478,689
3,9213,2328,756
3,8763,2288,834

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 Puerto Rico; the database as a whole is cited above.