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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Burkina Faso	Romania	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	387	11,075	22,414	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	390	11,405	22,262	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	393	11,828	22,106	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	396	12,380	21,931	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	398	12,829	21,828	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	401	13,178	21,704	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	404	13,540	21,571	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	405	13,917	21,443	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	406	14,309	21,129	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	409	14,722	20,779	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	412	15,152	20,607	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	414	15,600	20,485	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	416	16,064	20,385	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	420	16,563	20,296	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	426	17,072	20,224	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	435	17,575	20,151	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	445	18,094	20,055	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	455	18,621	19,938	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	468	19,157	19,823	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	485	19,698	19,713	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	504	20,242	19,622	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	516	20,788	19,496	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	518	21,336	19,351	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	530	21,889	19,266	8,834

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.

All data sources

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

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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 Malta, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.