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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	South Africa	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	277	46,257	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	281	46,958	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	285	47,820	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	288	48,480	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	289	48,951	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	293	49,478	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	296	50,054	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	304	50,667	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	311	51,339	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	319	52,077	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	319	52,862	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	318	53,682	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	319	54,518	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	321	55,356	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	324	56,215	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	327	57,075	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	331	57,947	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	335	58,830	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	343	59,715	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	353	60,595	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	361	61,469	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	366	62,355	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	372	62,900	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	380	63,382	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.

South Africa

1700–1900 (Cape Colony): Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.L. (2013). GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the Nationals Accounts of a Slave-Based Society, South African Journal of Economics, vol. 81 (4): 467 - 490

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