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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 MaliBosnia & HerzegovinaSwitzerland
10,5963,8117,258
10,8333,9017,296
10,8903,9197,332
11,0073,9237,384
11,3073,9407,438
11,5793,9757,488
11,8043,9917,532
12,0433,9937,579
12,3373,9907,647
12,6573,9877,738
12,9863,9857,825
13,3253,9837,884
13,6793,9807,959
14,0403,9778,044
14,4123,9738,137
14,8033,9688,237
15,2103,9638,332
15,6293,9578,423
16,0603,9518,502
16,5073,9448,565
16,9673,9378,626
17,4423,9298,689
17,9303,9218,756
18,4943,8768,834

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

Bosnia & Herzegovina

  • 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 Mali; the database as a whole is cited above.