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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 BarbadosSwitzerlandPakistan
2737,258141,497
2747,296145,759
2757,332150,448
2767,384154,585
2787,438158,209
2797,488161,556
2807,532165,075
2817,579168,846
2827,647172,882
2837,738176,809
2857,825180,690
2867,884184,989
2877,959189,314
2888,044193,569
2898,137197,994
2908,237202,387
2918,332206,716
2918,423210,929
2928,502215,276
2938,565219,927
2948,626224,604
2948,689229,276
2958,756233,942
2958,834238,413

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, Pakistan; the database as a whole is cited above.