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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	Cameroon	Romania	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	273	15,483	22,414	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	274	15,913	22,262	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	275	16,354	22,106	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	276	16,815	21,931	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	278	17,289	21,828	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	17,764	21,704	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	280	18,249	21,571	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	281	18,746	21,443	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	282	19,278	21,129	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	283	19,843	20,779	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	285	20,419	20,607	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	286	21,002	20,485	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	287	21,586	20,385	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	288	22,181	20,296	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	289	22,800	20,224	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	290	23,513	20,151	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	291	24,273	20,055	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	291	24,995	19,938	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	292	25,680	19,823	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	293	26,373	19,713	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	294	27,114	19,622	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	294	27,878	19,496	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	295	28,663	19,351	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	295	29,417	19,266	8,834

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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