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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Switzerland	Canada	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	7,258	30,510	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	7,296	30,796	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	7,332	31,132	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	7,384	31,473	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	7,438	31,758	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	7,488	32,055	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	7,532	32,360	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	7,579	32,688	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	7,647	33,007	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	7,738	33,367	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	7,825	33,750	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	7,884	34,127	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	7,959	34,463	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	8,044	34,839	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	8,137	35,209	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	8,237	35,565	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	8,332	35,831	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	8,423	36,239	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	8,502	36,677	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	8,565	37,198	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	8,626	37,736	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	8,689	38,174	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	8,756	38,383	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	8,834	38,685	3,876

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

Canada

1820-1850: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1851-70: O.J. Firestone, "Canada's Changing Economy in the Second Half of the 19th Century", NBER, New York, 1957, processed, amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870)
1870-1926: M.C. Urquart and Associates, ed., Gross National Product, Canada 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993, pp. 11-12 and 24-5,
1926-1950: Statistics Canada, National Income and Expenditure Accounts, vol. 1, The Annual Estimates 1926-1974, Ottawa, 1975, p. 323. 1960 onwards from OECD, National Accounts.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

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