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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Switzerland	North Macedonia	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	7,258	2,006	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	7,296	2,017	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	7,332	2,026	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	7,384	2,011	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	7,438	2,018	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	7,488	2,024	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	7,532	2,028	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	7,579	2,031	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	7,647	2,035	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	7,738	2,038	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	7,825	2,042	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	7,884	2,046	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	7,959	2,049	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	8,044	2,052	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	8,137	2,055	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	8,237	2,058	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	8,332	2,061	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	8,423	2,063	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	8,502	2,065	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	8,565	2,067	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	8,626	2,068	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	8,689	2,065	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	8,756	2,057	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	8,834	2,048	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

North Macedonia

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.