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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Colombia	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	277	38,365	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	281	38,911	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	285	39,411	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	288	39,918	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	289	40,416	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	293	40,899	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	296	41,374	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	304	41,862	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	311	42,324	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	319	42,781	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	319	43,264	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	318	43,771	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	319	44,225	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	321	44,660	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	324	45,081	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	327	45,846	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	331	46,290	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	335	46,796	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	343	47,385	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	353	48,222	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	361	49,326	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	366	50,283	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	372	50,978	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	380	51,332	8,834

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

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.

Colombia

1800 - 1870: 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)
1870 - 1923: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P.
1929 - 1950: CEPAL, Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, Santiago, 1978

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