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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	Ecuador	Burkina Faso	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	277	12,268	11,075	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	281	12,446	11,405	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	285	12,629	11,828	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,827	12,380	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	289	13,074	12,829	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,368	13,178	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,661	13,540	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,915	13,917	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,133	14,309	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,352	14,722	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	319	14,569	15,152	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	318	14,786	15,600	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	319	15,002	16,064	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	321	15,218	16,563	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	324	15,433	17,072	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	327	15,647	17,575	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	331	15,860	18,094	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	335	16,072	18,621	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	343	16,282	19,157	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	353	16,489	19,698	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	361	16,693	20,242	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	366	16,894	20,788	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	372	17,093	21,336	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	380	17,288	21,889	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.

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.

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.

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 Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.