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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 SwitzerlandAlbaniaCongo - Kinshasa
7,2583,08551,181
7,2963,06552,782
7,3323,04754,453
7,3843,03856,170
7,4383,02657,860
7,4883,01459,599
7,5322,99861,474
7,5792,97963,479
7,6472,95765,590
7,7382,93467,800
7,8252,91570,114
7,8842,90072,550
7,9592,89275,138
8,0442,88877,792
8,1372,88280,534
8,2372,87683,368
8,3322,86886,229
8,4232,86389,193
8,5022,86192,209
8,5652,85495,232
8,6262,84298,320
8,6892,825101,499
8,7562,799104,767
8,8342,787108,171

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