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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 - KinshasaSloveniaSwitzerland
51,1811,9987,258
52,7822,0047,296
54,4532,0067,332
56,1702,0097,384
57,8602,0107,438
59,5992,0117,488
61,4742,0157,532
63,4792,0227,579
65,5902,0337,647
67,8002,0367,738
70,1142,0567,825
72,5502,0637,884
75,1382,0677,959
77,7922,0718,044
80,5342,0748,137
83,3682,0768,237
86,2292,0788,332
89,1932,0798,423
92,2092,0818,502
95,2322,0878,565
98,3202,1048,626
101,4992,1188,689
104,7672,1238,756
108,1712,1248,834

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

Slovenia

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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; the database as a whole is cited above.