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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	Türkiye	Paraguay
Dec 31, 1999	273	7,258	65,020	5,366
Dec 31, 2000	274	7,296	65,949	5,473
Dec 31, 2001	275	7,332	66,869	5,579
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,384	67,728	5,683
Dec 31, 2003	278	7,438	68,541	5,786
Dec 31, 2004	279	7,488	69,366	5,886
Dec 31, 2005	280	7,532	70,224	5,984
Dec 31, 2006	281	7,579	71,106	6,080
Dec 31, 2007	282	7,647	71,992	6,173
Dec 31, 2008	283	7,738	72,909	6,264
Dec 31, 2009	285	7,825	73,922	6,352
Dec 31, 2010	286	7,884	75,054	6,438
Dec 31, 2011	287	7,959	76,164	6,522
Dec 31, 2012	288	8,044	77,141	6,605
Dec 31, 2013	289	8,137	78,138	6,688
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,237	79,199	6,769
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,332	80,262	6,850
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,423	81,350	6,930
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,502	82,412	7,012
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,565	83,535	7,095
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,626	84,737	7,179
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,689	85,564	7,263
Dec 31, 2021	295	8,756	86,346	7,348
Dec 31, 2022	295	8,834	87,201	7,432

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

Türkiye

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
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

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