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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 BarbadosSwitzerlandMalaysia
2737,25822,132
2747,29622,695
2757,33223,291
2767,38423,874
2787,43824,437
2797,48824,993
2807,53225,543
2817,57926,086
2827,64726,620
2837,73827,161
2857,82527,715
2867,88428,268
2877,95928,750
2888,04429,163
2898,13729,568
2908,23729,977
2918,33230,387
2918,42330,782
2928,50231,164
2938,56531,539
2948,62631,903
2948,68932,257
2958,75632,603
2958,83432,956

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

Malaysia

  • 1900-1939: Nazrin Shah, S. (2017). Charting the Economy: Early 20th Century Malaya and Contemporary Malaysian Contrasts, Oxford University Press

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