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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	Malta	Thailand	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	273	387	59,748	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	274	390	60,165	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	275	393	60,746	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	276	396	61,323	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	278	398	61,884	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	279	401	62,425	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	280	404	62,956	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	281	405	63,467	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	282	406	63,937	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	283	409	64,381	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	285	412	64,804	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	286	414	65,208	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	287	416	65,599	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	288	420	65,970	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	289	426	66,332	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	290	435	66,673	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	291	445	66,975	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	291	455	67,250	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	292	468	67,506	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	293	485	67,750	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	294	504	67,975	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	294	516	68,180	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	295	518	68,366	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	295	530	68,457	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

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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.