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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 MoroccoCongo - KinshasaSwitzerland
28,40051,1817,258
28,74452,7827,296
29,09454,4537,332
29,44756,1707,384
29,80657,8607,438
30,16959,5997,488
30,55261,4747,532
30,95363,4797,579
31,35465,5907,647
31,75467,8007,738
32,15470,1147,825
32,55372,5507,884
32,95175,1387,959
33,34677,7928,044
33,73780,5348,137
34,12483,3688,237
34,51186,2298,332
34,89889,1938,423
35,27992,2098,502
35,65395,2328,565
36,01898,3208,626
36,375101,4998,689
36,723104,7678,756
37,101108,1718,834

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

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 Morocco, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.