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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 SwitzerlandAzerbaijanCongo - Kinshasa
7,2588,05651,181
7,2968,12752,782
7,3328,19454,453
7,3848,25756,170
7,4388,31957,860
7,4888,39159,599
7,5328,47561,474
7,5798,56563,479
7,6478,65765,590
7,7388,75067,800
7,8258,84270,114
7,8848,93372,550
7,9599,02575,138
8,0449,11777,792
8,1379,21080,534
8,2379,30283,368
8,3329,39386,229
8,4239,48189,193
8,5029,56792,209
8,5659,64995,232
8,6269,72798,320
8,6899,802101,499
8,7569,874104,767
8,8349,918108,171

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