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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 BarbadosSwitzerlandAzerbaijan
2737,2588,056
2747,2968,127
2757,3328,194
2767,3848,257
2787,4388,319
2797,4888,391
2807,5328,475
2817,5798,565
2827,6478,657
2837,7388,750
2857,8258,842
2867,8848,933
2877,9599,025
2888,0449,117
2898,1379,210
2908,2379,302
2918,3329,393
2918,4239,481
2928,5029,567
2938,5659,649
2948,6269,727
2948,6899,802
2958,7569,874
2958,8349,918

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

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