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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Switzerland	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	7,258	3,811	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	7,296	3,901	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	7,332	3,919	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	7,384	3,923	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	7,438	3,940	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	7,488	3,975	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	7,532	3,991	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	7,579	3,993	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	7,647	3,990	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	7,738	3,987	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	7,825	3,985	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	7,884	3,983	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	7,959	3,980	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	8,044	3,977	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	8,137	3,973	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	8,237	3,968	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	8,332	3,963	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	8,423	3,957	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	8,502	3,951	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	8,565	3,944	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	8,626	3,937	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	8,689	3,929	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	8,756	3,921	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	8,834	3,876	17,288

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

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.