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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Switzerland	São Tomé & Príncipe	Romania
Dec 31, 1999	7,258	138	22,414
Dec 31, 2000	7,296	141	22,262
Dec 31, 2001	7,332	144	22,106
Dec 31, 2002	7,384	147	21,931
Dec 31, 2003	7,438	151	21,828
Dec 31, 2004	7,488	154	21,704
Dec 31, 2005	7,532	158	21,571
Dec 31, 2006	7,579	161	21,443
Dec 31, 2007	7,647	165	21,129
Dec 31, 2008	7,738	168	20,779
Dec 31, 2009	7,825	172	20,607
Dec 31, 2010	7,884	176	20,485
Dec 31, 2011	7,959	180	20,385
Dec 31, 2012	8,044	183	20,296
Dec 31, 2013	8,137	187	20,224
Dec 31, 2014	8,237	190	20,151
Dec 31, 2015	8,332	194	20,055
Dec 31, 2016	8,423	198	19,938
Dec 31, 2017	8,502	201	19,823
Dec 31, 2018	8,565	204	19,713
Dec 31, 2019	8,626	208	19,622
Dec 31, 2020	8,689	212	19,496
Dec 31, 2021	8,756	216	19,351
Dec 31, 2022	8,834	220	19,266

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.

No separate list is published for São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.