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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 BarbadosPhilippinesSwitzerlandLuxembourg
27379,3467,258433
27481,1317,296438
27583,0237,332443
27684,8767,384448
27886,6977,438454
27988,5687,488460
28090,4187,532467
28192,2537,579474
28294,0987,647482
28395,9237,738491
28597,6277,825500
28699,3177,884509
287100,9997,959521
288102,6188,044533
289104,2998,137547
290106,0768,237560
291107,8688,332571
291109,4938,423586
292111,0948,502599
293112,8438,565610
294114,6368,626623
294117,0268,689633
295119,4738,756643
295121,2348,834651

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

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.

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