Population, long-run history: compare countries

See Population, long-run history for up to four countries side by side.

Countries being compared

Add a country

Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Thailand	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	277	59,748	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	281	60,165	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	285	60,746	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	288	61,323	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	289	61,884	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	293	62,425	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	296	62,956	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	304	63,467	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	311	63,937	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	319	64,381	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	319	64,804	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	318	65,208	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	319	65,599	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	321	65,970	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	324	66,332	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	327	66,673	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	331	66,975	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	335	67,250	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	343	67,506	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	353	67,750	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	361	67,975	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	366	68,180	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	372	68,366	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	380	68,457	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.

Thailand

1820-1900: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1900-50: Sompop Manarungsan, "Economic Development of Thailand, 1850-1950", University of Groningen, Ph. D. thesis, 1989

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