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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Switzerland	Romania	Austria
Dec 31, 1999	7,258	22,414	8,039
Dec 31, 2000	7,296	22,262	8,059
Dec 31, 2001	7,332	22,106	8,090
Dec 31, 2002	7,384	21,931	8,130
Dec 31, 2003	7,438	21,828	8,166
Dec 31, 2004	7,488	21,704	8,217
Dec 31, 2005	7,532	21,571	8,274
Dec 31, 2006	7,579	21,443	8,317
Dec 31, 2007	7,647	21,129	8,344
Dec 31, 2008	7,738	20,779	8,370
Dec 31, 2009	7,825	20,607	8,390
Dec 31, 2010	7,884	20,485	8,410
Dec 31, 2011	7,959	20,385	8,438
Dec 31, 2012	8,044	20,296	8,476
Dec 31, 2013	8,137	20,224	8,527
Dec 31, 2014	8,237	20,151	8,594
Dec 31, 2015	8,332	20,055	8,680
Dec 31, 2016	8,423	19,938	8,791
Dec 31, 2017	8,502	19,823	8,847
Dec 31, 2018	8,565	19,713	8,890
Dec 31, 2019	8,626	19,622	8,930
Dec 31, 2020	8,689	19,496	8,969
Dec 31, 2021	8,756	19,351	9,004
Dec 31, 2022	8,834	19,266	9,107

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

Austria

1830-1913: Kausel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen 1830 bis 1913" in Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979, Beitrage zur österreichischen Statistik, Heft 550, Vienna, 1979, pp. 692-3.
1913-50: A. Kausel, N. Nemeth, and H. Seidel, "Oster-reichs Volkseinkommen, 1913-63", Monatsberichte des Osterreichischen Institutes für Wirtschaftsforschung, 14th Sonderheft, Vienna, August 1965, p. 38 and 42;