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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 MoroccoSwitzerlandBarbados
28,4007,258273
28,7447,296274
29,0947,332275
29,4477,384276
29,8067,438278
30,1697,488279
30,5527,532280
30,9537,579281
31,3547,647282
31,7547,738283
32,1547,825285
32,5537,884286
32,9517,959287
33,3468,044288
33,7378,137289
34,1248,237290
34,5118,332291
34,8988,423291
35,2798,502292
35,6538,565293
36,0188,626294
36,3758,689294
36,7238,756295
37,1018,834295

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, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.