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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Switzerland	Austria
Dec 31, 1999	273	7,258	8,039
Dec 31, 2000	274	7,296	8,059
Dec 31, 2001	275	7,332	8,090
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,384	8,130
Dec 31, 2003	278	7,438	8,166
Dec 31, 2004	279	7,488	8,217
Dec 31, 2005	280	7,532	8,274
Dec 31, 2006	281	7,579	8,317
Dec 31, 2007	282	7,647	8,344
Dec 31, 2008	283	7,738	8,370
Dec 31, 2009	285	7,825	8,390
Dec 31, 2010	286	7,884	8,410
Dec 31, 2011	287	7,959	8,438
Dec 31, 2012	288	8,044	8,476
Dec 31, 2013	289	8,137	8,527
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,237	8,594
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,332	8,680
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,423	8,791
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,502	8,847
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,565	8,890
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,626	8,930
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,689	8,969
Dec 31, 2021	295	8,756	9,004
Dec 31, 2022	295	8,834	9,107

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

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

Austria

1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.