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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 & HerzegovinaYemenSwitzerland
3,81116,7287,258
3,90117,2367,296
3,91917,7627,332
3,92318,3107,384
3,94018,8557,438
3,97519,4107,488
3,99120,0007,532
3,99320,6117,579
3,99021,2367,647
3,98721,8787,738
3,98522,5337,825
3,98323,1957,884
3,98023,8807,959
3,97724,5948,044
3,97325,3118,137
3,96826,0208,237
3,96326,6988,332
3,95727,3478,423
3,95127,9858,502
3,94428,6088,565
3,93729,2168,626
3,92929,8118,689
3,92130,3998,756
3,87631,0588,834

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 Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.