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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	Iceland	Switzerland	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	7,258	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	7,296	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	7,332	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	7,384	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	7,438	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	7,488	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	7,532	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	7,579	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	7,647	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	7,738	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	7,825	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	7,884	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	7,959	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	8,044	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	8,137	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	8,237	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	8,332	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	8,423	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	8,502	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	8,565	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	8,626	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	8,689	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	8,756	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	8,834	17,288

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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

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.

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