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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Switzerland	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	277	7,258	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	281	7,296	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	285	7,332	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	288	7,384	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	289	7,438	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	293	7,488	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	296	7,532	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	304	7,579	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	311	7,647	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	319	7,738	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	319	7,825	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	318	7,884	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	319	7,959	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	321	8,044	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	324	8,137	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	327	8,237	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	331	8,332	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	335	8,423	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	343	8,502	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	353	8,565	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	361	8,626	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	366	8,689	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	372	8,756	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	380	8,834	46,498

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

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

No separate list is published for Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.