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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 GermanySwitzerlandMontenegro
81,4397,258623
81,4747,296623
81,5347,332623
81,5957,384622
81,5667,438621
81,4737,488621
81,3547,532621
81,1907,579620
81,0097,647620
80,7817,738621
80,5007,825622
80,3017,884623
80,2927,959622
80,4438,044622
80,6638,137622
81,0008,237621
81,7048,332620
82,3668,423618
82,6748,502616
82,9238,565614
83,1108,626613
83,1788,689612
83,2138,756611
83,8118,834610

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

Germany

  • 1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
  • 1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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

Montenegro

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project