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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date Congo - KinshasaLibyaSwitzerland
51,1814,9937,258
52,7825,1167,296
54,4535,2377,332
56,1705,3577,384
57,8605,4767,438
59,5995,5957,488
61,4745,7157,532
63,4795,8357,579
65,5905,9677,647
67,8006,1157,738
70,1146,2707,825
72,5506,4327,884
75,1386,1447,959
77,7925,8498,044
80,5346,0108,137
83,3686,1638,237
86,2296,2918,332
89,1936,4158,423
92,2096,5498,502
95,2326,6898,565
98,3206,8268,626
101,4996,9608,689
104,7677,0888,756
108,1717,1698,834

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

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 Congo - Kinshasa, Libya; the database as a whole is cited above.