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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 BarbadosSwitzerlandBosnia & Herzegovina
2737,2583,811
2747,2963,901
2757,3323,919
2767,3843,923
2787,4383,940
2797,4883,975
2807,5323,991
2817,5793,993
2827,6473,990
2837,7383,987
2857,8253,985
2867,8843,983
2877,9593,980
2888,0443,977
2898,1373,973
2908,2373,968
2918,3323,963
2918,4233,957
2928,5023,951
2938,5653,944
2948,6263,937
2948,6893,929
2958,7563,921
2958,8343,876

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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