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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 & HerzegovinaThailandSwitzerland
3,81159,7487,258
3,90160,1657,296
3,91960,7467,332
3,92361,3237,384
3,94061,8847,438
3,97562,4257,488
3,99162,9567,532
3,99363,4677,579
3,99063,9377,647
3,98764,3817,738
3,98564,8047,825
3,98365,2087,884
3,98065,5997,959
3,97765,9708,044
3,97366,3328,137
3,96866,6738,237
3,96366,9758,332
3,95767,2508,423
3,95167,5068,502
3,94467,7508,565
3,93767,9758,626
3,92968,1808,689
3,92168,3668,756
3,87668,4578,834

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

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

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