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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 Dominican RepublicCongo - KinshasaSwitzerland
8,17551,1817,258
8,30152,7827,296
8,42754,4537,332
8,55356,1707,384
8,67857,8607,438
8,80159,5997,488
8,92461,4747,532
9,04463,4797,579
9,16465,5907,647
9,28167,8007,738
9,39870,1147,825
9,51272,5507,884
9,62775,1387,959
9,74277,7928,044
9,85580,5348,137
9,96583,3688,237
10,07286,2298,332
10,17789,1938,423
10,28192,2098,502
10,38595,2328,565
10,48798,3208,626
10,587101,4998,689
10,686104,7678,756
10,793108,1718,834

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 Dominican Republic, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.