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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Türkiye	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	277	65,020	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	281	65,949	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	285	66,869	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	288	67,728	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	289	68,541	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	293	69,366	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	296	70,224	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	304	71,106	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	311	71,992	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	319	72,909	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	319	73,922	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	318	75,054	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	319	76,164	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	321	77,141	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	324	78,138	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	327	79,199	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	331	80,262	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	335	81,350	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	343	82,412	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	353	83,535	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	361	84,737	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	366	85,564	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	372	86,346	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	380	87,201	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.

Türkiye

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
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

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