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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 RepublicSão Tomé & PríncipeSwitzerland
8,1751387,258
8,3011417,296
8,4271447,332
8,5531477,384
8,6781517,438
8,8011547,488
8,9241587,532
9,0441617,579
9,1641657,647
9,2811687,738
9,3981727,825
9,5121767,884
9,6271807,959
9,7421838,044
9,8551878,137
9,9651908,237
10,0721948,332
10,1771988,423
10,2812018,502
10,3852048,565
10,4872088,626
10,5872128,689
10,6862168,756
10,7932208,834

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, São Tomé & Príncipe; the database as a whole is cited above.