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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Peru	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	277	20,963	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	281	21,291	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	285	21,631	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	288	21,980	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	289	22,339	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	293	22,707	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	296	23,055	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	304	23,380	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	311	23,708	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	319	23,944	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	319	24,087	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	318	24,228	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	319	24,364	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	321	24,491	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	324	24,607	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	327	24,714	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	331	24,812	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	335	24,904	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	343	24,999	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	353	25,403	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	361	25,966	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	366	26,308	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	372	26,508	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	380	26,771	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.

Peru

1600–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Seminario, B. (2015). El Desarrallo de la Economía Peruana en la Era Moderna, Universidad de Pacifico, Lima
1870-1901: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P, Table A2
1900-1913: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1913-1941: C.A. Bolona Behr, "Tariff Policies in Peru, 1880-1980", Ph.D. thesis, Oxford University, 1981;
1942-1950: "Cuadros del producto interno bruto en dollares de 1950", CEPAL, Santiago, October 1962, mimeographed;
1945-1950: Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, CEPAL, 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