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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Brazil	Germany	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	174,320	81,439	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	176,902	81,474	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	179,389	81,534	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	181,721	81,595	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	183,970	81,566	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	186,165	81,473	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	188,330	81,354	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	190,438	81,190	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	192,450	81,009	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	194,458	80,781	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	196,464	80,500	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	198,408	80,301	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	200,152	80,292	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	201,894	80,443	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	203,614	80,663	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	205,358	81,000	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	207,148	81,704	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	208,859	82,366	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	210,537	82,674	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	212,258	82,923	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	213,940	83,110	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	215,577	83,178	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	216,720	83,213	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	217,718	83,811	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

Brazil

1800 - 1870: 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)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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