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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Switzerland	Colombia
Dec 31, 1999	7,258	38,365
Dec 31, 2000	7,296	38,911
Dec 31, 2001	7,332	39,411
Dec 31, 2002	7,384	39,918
Dec 31, 2003	7,438	40,416
Dec 31, 2004	7,488	40,899
Dec 31, 2005	7,532	41,374
Dec 31, 2006	7,579	41,862
Dec 31, 2007	7,647	42,324
Dec 31, 2008	7,738	42,781
Dec 31, 2009	7,825	43,264
Dec 31, 2010	7,884	43,771
Dec 31, 2011	7,959	44,225
Dec 31, 2012	8,044	44,660
Dec 31, 2013	8,137	45,081
Dec 31, 2014	8,237	45,846
Dec 31, 2015	8,332	46,290
Dec 31, 2016	8,423	46,796
Dec 31, 2017	8,502	47,385
Dec 31, 2018	8,565	48,222
Dec 31, 2019	8,626	49,326
Dec 31, 2020	8,689	50,283
Dec 31, 2021	8,756	50,978
Dec 31, 2022	8,834	51,332

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

Colombia

1800 - 1870: 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)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978