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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 GuineaSwitzerlandCongo - Kinshasa
7,6107,25851,181
7,7807,29652,782
7,8217,33254,453
7,9067,38456,170
8,1217,43857,860
8,3177,48859,599
8,4787,53261,474
8,6507,57963,479
8,8607,64765,590
9,0917,73867,800
9,3277,82570,114
9,5717,88472,550
9,8257,95975,138
10,0848,04477,792
10,3518,13780,534
10,6328,23783,368
10,9248,33286,229
11,2258,42389,193
11,5348,50292,209
11,8558,56595,232
12,1608,62698,320
12,4698,689101,499
12,7788,756104,767
13,0878,834108,171

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