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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 SwitzerlandBosnia & HerzegovinaCongo - Kinshasa
7,2583,81151,181
7,2963,90152,782
7,3323,91954,453
7,3843,92356,170
7,4383,94057,860
7,4883,97559,599
7,5323,99161,474
7,5793,99363,479
7,6473,99065,590
7,7383,98767,800
7,8253,98570,114
7,8843,98372,550
7,9593,98075,138
8,0443,97777,792
8,1373,97380,534
8,2373,96883,368
8,3323,96386,229
8,4233,95789,193
8,5023,95192,209
8,5653,94495,232
8,6263,93798,320
8,6893,929101,499
8,7563,921104,767
8,8343,876108,171

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.