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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	Saudi Arabia	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	277	19,964	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	281	20,426	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	285	20,956	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	288	21,549	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	289	22,189	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	293	22,850	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	296	23,516	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	304	24,178	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	311	24,841	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	319	25,518	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	319	26,227	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	318	27,068	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	319	27,810	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	321	28,516	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	324	29,220	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	327	29,936	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	331	30,646	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	335	31,360	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	343	32,184	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	353	32,869	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	361	33,661	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	366	34,542	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	372	33,651	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	380	34,081	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.

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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