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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosLuxembourgSwitzerlandPhilippines
2734337,25879,346
2744387,29681,131
2754437,33283,023
2764487,38484,876
2784547,43886,697
2794607,48888,568
2804677,53290,418
2814747,57992,253
2824827,64794,098
2834917,73895,923
2855007,82597,627
2865097,88499,317
2875217,959100,999
2885338,044102,618
2895478,137104,299
2905608,237106,076
2915718,332107,868
2915868,423109,493
2925998,502111,094
2936108,565112,843
2946238,626114,636
2946338,689117,026
2956438,756119,473
2956518,834121,234

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

Philippines

  • 1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
  • 1900-1950: R.W. Hooley, "Long Term Growth of the Philippine Economy, 1902-1961", , The Philippine Economic Journal, First Semester, 1968.

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