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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	Estonia	Romania	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	277	1,378	22,414	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	281	1,400	22,262	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	285	1,391	22,106	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	288	1,382	21,931	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	289	1,374	21,828	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	293	1,365	21,704	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	296	1,357	21,571	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	304	1,349	21,443	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	311	1,341	21,129	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	319	1,337	20,779	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	319	1,334	20,607	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	318	1,332	20,485	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	319	1,328	20,385	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	321	1,324	20,296	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	324	1,319	20,224	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	327	1,314	20,151	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	331	1,312	20,055	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	335	1,314	19,938	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	343	1,314	19,823	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	353	1,318	19,713	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	361	1,323	19,622	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	366	1,327	19,496	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	372	1,329	19,351	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	380	1,330	19,266	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.

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.

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 Estonia; the database as a whole is cited above.