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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 North MacedoniaCongo - KinshasaSwitzerland
2,00651,1817,258
2,01752,7827,296
2,02654,4537,332
2,01156,1707,384
2,01857,8607,438
2,02459,5997,488
2,02861,4747,532
2,03163,4797,579
2,03565,5907,647
2,03867,8007,738
2,04270,1147,825
2,04672,5507,884
2,04975,1387,959
2,05277,7928,044
2,05580,5348,137
2,05883,3688,237
2,06186,2298,332
2,06389,1938,423
2,06592,2098,502
2,06795,2328,565
2,06898,3208,626
2,065101,4998,689
2,057104,7678,756
2,048108,1718,834

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

North Macedonia

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