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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 MontenegroSwitzerlandOman
6237,2582,348
6237,2962,403
6237,3322,457
6227,3842,510
6217,4382,562
6217,4882,613
6217,5322,663
6207,5792,713
6207,6472,764
6217,7382,816
6227,8252,871
6237,8842,928
6227,9592,986
6228,0443,047
6228,1373,110
6218,2373,174
6208,3323,240
6188,4233,307
6168,5023,375
6148,5653,444
6138,6263,512
6128,6893,582
6118,7563,651
6108,8343,696

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

Montenegro

  • 1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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 Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.