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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Germany	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	277	81,439	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	281	81,474	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	285	81,534	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	288	81,595	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	289	81,566	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	293	81,473	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	296	81,354	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	304	81,190	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	311	81,009	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	319	80,781	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	319	80,500	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	318	80,301	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	319	80,292	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	321	80,443	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	324	80,663	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	327	81,000	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	331	81,704	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	335	82,366	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	343	82,674	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	353	82,923	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	361	83,110	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	366	83,178	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	372	83,213	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	380	83,811	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.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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