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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Switzerland	Thailand
Dec 31, 1999	7,258	59,748
Dec 31, 2000	7,296	60,165
Dec 31, 2001	7,332	60,746
Dec 31, 2002	7,384	61,323
Dec 31, 2003	7,438	61,884
Dec 31, 2004	7,488	62,425
Dec 31, 2005	7,532	62,956
Dec 31, 2006	7,579	63,467
Dec 31, 2007	7,647	63,937
Dec 31, 2008	7,738	64,381
Dec 31, 2009	7,825	64,804
Dec 31, 2010	7,884	65,208
Dec 31, 2011	7,959	65,599
Dec 31, 2012	8,044	65,970
Dec 31, 2013	8,137	66,332
Dec 31, 2014	8,237	66,673
Dec 31, 2015	8,332	66,975
Dec 31, 2016	8,423	67,250
Dec 31, 2017	8,502	67,506
Dec 31, 2018	8,565	67,750
Dec 31, 2019	8,626	67,975
Dec 31, 2020	8,689	68,180
Dec 31, 2021	8,756	68,366
Dec 31, 2022	8,834	68,457

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

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989