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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 MaliOmanSwitzerland
10,5962,3487,258
10,8332,4037,296
10,8902,4577,332
11,0072,5107,384
11,3072,5627,438
11,5792,6137,488
11,8042,6637,532
12,0432,7137,579
12,3372,7647,647
12,6572,8167,738
12,9862,8717,825
13,3252,9287,884
13,6792,9867,959
14,0403,0478,044
14,4123,1108,137
14,8033,1748,237
15,2103,2408,332
15,6293,3078,423
16,0603,3758,502
16,5073,4448,565
16,9673,5128,626
17,4423,5828,689
17,9303,6518,756
18,4943,6968,834

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

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