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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 SwitzerlandSão Tomé & PríncipeBurkina Faso
7,25813811,075
7,29614111,405
7,33214411,828
7,38414712,380
7,43815112,829
7,48815413,178
7,53215813,540
7,57916113,917
7,64716514,309
7,73816814,722
7,82517215,152
7,88417615,600
7,95918016,064
8,04418316,563
8,13718717,072
8,23719017,575
8,33219418,094
8,42319818,621
8,50220119,157
8,56520419,698
8,62620820,242
8,68921220,788
8,75621621,336
8,83422021,889

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 São Tomé & Príncipe, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.