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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Switzerland	Romania	Ecuador
Dec 31, 1999	277	7,258	22,414	12,268
Dec 31, 2000	281	7,296	22,262	12,446
Dec 31, 2001	285	7,332	22,106	12,629
Dec 31, 2002	288	7,384	21,931	12,827
Dec 31, 2003	289	7,438	21,828	13,074
Dec 31, 2004	293	7,488	21,704	13,368
Dec 31, 2005	296	7,532	21,571	13,661
Dec 31, 2006	304	7,579	21,443	13,915
Dec 31, 2007	311	7,647	21,129	14,133
Dec 31, 2008	319	7,738	20,779	14,352
Dec 31, 2009	319	7,825	20,607	14,569
Dec 31, 2010	318	7,884	20,485	14,786
Dec 31, 2011	319	7,959	20,385	15,002
Dec 31, 2012	321	8,044	20,296	15,218
Dec 31, 2013	324	8,137	20,224	15,433
Dec 31, 2014	327	8,237	20,151	15,647
Dec 31, 2015	331	8,332	20,055	15,860
Dec 31, 2016	335	8,423	19,938	16,072
Dec 31, 2017	343	8,502	19,823	16,282
Dec 31, 2018	353	8,565	19,713	16,489
Dec 31, 2019	361	8,626	19,622	16,693
Dec 31, 2020	366	8,689	19,496	16,894
Dec 31, 2021	372	8,756	19,351	17,093
Dec 31, 2022	380	8,834	19,266	17,288

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.

All data sources

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.