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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 MacedoniaSwitzerlandCongo - Kinshasa
2,0067,25851,181
2,0177,29652,782
2,0267,33254,453
2,0117,38456,170
2,0187,43857,860
2,0247,48859,599
2,0287,53261,474
2,0317,57963,479
2,0357,64765,590
2,0387,73867,800
2,0427,82570,114
2,0467,88472,550
2,0497,95975,138
2,0528,04477,792
2,0558,13780,534
2,0588,23783,368
2,0618,33286,229
2,0638,42389,193
2,0658,50292,209
2,0678,56595,232
2,0688,62698,320
2,0658,689101,499
2,0578,756104,767
2,0488,834108,171

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.