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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 SwitzerlandOmanCongo - Kinshasa
7,2582,34851,181
7,2962,40352,782
7,3322,45754,453
7,3842,51056,170
7,4382,56257,860
7,4882,61359,599
7,5322,66361,474
7,5792,71363,479
7,6472,76465,590
7,7382,81667,800
7,8252,87170,114
7,8842,92872,550
7,9592,98675,138
8,0443,04777,792
8,1373,11080,534
8,2373,17483,368
8,3323,24086,229
8,4233,30789,193
8,5023,37592,209
8,5653,44495,232
8,6263,51298,320
8,6893,582101,499
8,7563,651104,767
8,8343,696108,171

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

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