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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	Romania	Switzerland	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	277	22,414	7,258	387
Dec 31, 2000	281	22,262	7,296	390
Dec 31, 2001	285	22,106	7,332	393
Dec 31, 2002	288	21,931	7,384	396
Dec 31, 2003	289	21,828	7,438	398
Dec 31, 2004	293	21,704	7,488	401
Dec 31, 2005	296	21,571	7,532	404
Dec 31, 2006	304	21,443	7,579	405
Dec 31, 2007	311	21,129	7,647	406
Dec 31, 2008	319	20,779	7,738	409
Dec 31, 2009	319	20,607	7,825	412
Dec 31, 2010	318	20,485	7,884	414
Dec 31, 2011	319	20,385	7,959	416
Dec 31, 2012	321	20,296	8,044	420
Dec 31, 2013	324	20,224	8,137	426
Dec 31, 2014	327	20,151	8,237	435
Dec 31, 2015	331	20,055	8,332	445
Dec 31, 2016	335	19,938	8,423	455
Dec 31, 2017	343	19,823	8,502	468
Dec 31, 2018	353	19,713	8,565	485
Dec 31, 2019	361	19,622	8,626	504
Dec 31, 2020	366	19,496	8,689	516
Dec 31, 2021	372	19,351	8,756	518
Dec 31, 2022	380	19,266	8,834	530

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 Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.