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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	Egypt	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	273	66,001	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	274	67,377	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	275	68,790	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	276	70,269	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	278	71,785	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	73,298	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	280	74,832	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	281	76,432	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	282	78,140	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	283	79,945	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	285	81,840	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	286	83,844	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	287	85,969	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	288	88,198	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	289	90,566	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	290	93,009	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	291	95,432	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	291	97,882	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	292	100,303	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	293	102,617	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	294	104,816	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	294	106,893	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	295	108,871	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	295	110,593	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.

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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

Egypt

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 – 1500: 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.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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; the database as a whole is cited above.