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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	Ecuador	Switzerland	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	273	12,268	7,258	387
Dec 31, 2000	274	12,446	7,296	390
Dec 31, 2001	275	12,629	7,332	393
Dec 31, 2002	276	12,827	7,384	396
Dec 31, 2003	278	13,074	7,438	398
Dec 31, 2004	279	13,368	7,488	401
Dec 31, 2005	280	13,661	7,532	404
Dec 31, 2006	281	13,915	7,579	405
Dec 31, 2007	282	14,133	7,647	406
Dec 31, 2008	283	14,352	7,738	409
Dec 31, 2009	285	14,569	7,825	412
Dec 31, 2010	286	14,786	7,884	414
Dec 31, 2011	287	15,002	7,959	416
Dec 31, 2012	288	15,218	8,044	420
Dec 31, 2013	289	15,433	8,137	426
Dec 31, 2014	290	15,647	8,237	435
Dec 31, 2015	291	15,860	8,332	445
Dec 31, 2016	291	16,072	8,423	455
Dec 31, 2017	292	16,282	8,502	468
Dec 31, 2018	293	16,489	8,565	485
Dec 31, 2019	294	16,693	8,626	504
Dec 31, 2020	294	16,894	8,689	516
Dec 31, 2021	295	17,093	8,756	518
Dec 31, 2022	295	17,288	8,834	530

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

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.

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