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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 HaitiCongo - KinshasaSwitzerland
8,12151,1817,258
8,27952,7827,296
8,43054,4537,332
8,58056,1707,384
8,73957,8607,438
8,90059,5997,488
9,06161,4747,532
9,21663,4797,579
9,36465,5907,647
9,50867,8007,738
9,65270,1147,825
9,55372,5507,884
9,67075,1387,959
9,79377,7928,044
9,92280,5348,137
10,04783,3688,237
10,25486,2298,332
10,48689,1938,423
10,64792,2098,502
10,78895,2328,565
10,93398,3208,626
11,077101,4998,689
11,215104,7678,756
11,349108,1718,834

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