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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 RepublicTrinidad & TobagoSwitzerland
8,1751,3017,258
8,3011,3037,296
8,4271,3087,332
8,5531,3147,384
8,6781,3207,438
8,8011,3267,488
8,9241,3327,532
9,0441,3387,579
9,1641,3447,647
9,2811,3527,738
9,3981,3597,825
9,5121,3657,884
9,6271,3727,959
9,7421,3798,044
9,8551,3868,137
9,9651,3928,237
10,0721,3998,332
10,1771,4058,423
10,2811,4118,502
10,3851,4368,565
10,4871,4528,626
10,5871,4488,689
10,6861,4508,756
10,7931,4568,834

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, Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.