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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Switzerland	Ecuador	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	273	7,258	12,268	627
Dec 31, 2000	274	7,296	12,446	659
Dec 31, 2001	275	7,332	12,629	691
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,384	12,827	724
Dec 31, 2003	278	7,438	13,074	757
Dec 31, 2004	279	7,488	13,368	850
Dec 31, 2005	280	7,532	13,661	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	281	7,579	13,915	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	282	7,647	14,133	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	283	7,738	14,352	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	285	7,825	14,569	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	286	7,884	14,786	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	287	7,959	15,002	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	288	8,044	15,218	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	289	8,137	15,433	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,237	15,647	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,332	15,860	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,423	16,072	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,502	16,282	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,565	16,489	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,626	16,693	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,689	16,894	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	295	8,756	17,093	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	295	8,834	17,288	2,559

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.

All data sources

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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