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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 DominicaOmanSwitzerland
702,3487,258
712,4037,296
712,4577,332
722,5107,384
722,5627,438
722,6137,488
722,6637,532
722,7137,579
722,7647,647
732,8167,738
732,8717,825
732,9287,884
732,9867,959
733,0478,044
733,1108,137
733,1748,237
743,2408,332
743,3078,423
743,3758,502
743,4448,565
753,5128,626
753,5828,689
763,6518,756
763,6968,834

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 Dominica, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.