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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date IcelandUzbekistanSwitzerland
27724,7017,258
28125,0427,296
28525,3727,332
28825,6967,384
28925,9927,438
29326,2687,488
29626,5407,532
30426,8127,579
31127,0817,647
31927,3477,738
31927,6097,825
31827,8697,884
31928,1327,959
32128,3988,044
32428,6668,137
32728,9348,237
33129,2058,332
33529,4808,423
34329,7568,502
35330,0318,565
36130,3058,626
36630,5768,689
37230,8438,756
38031,3378,834

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.

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 Uzbekistan; the database as a whole is cited above.