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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 Saudi ArabiaCongo - KinshasaSwitzerland
19,96451,1817,258
20,42652,7827,296
20,95654,4537,332
21,54956,1707,384
22,18957,8607,438
22,85059,5997,488
23,51661,4747,532
24,17863,4797,579
24,84165,5907,647
25,51867,8007,738
26,22770,1147,825
27,06872,5507,884
27,81075,1387,959
28,51677,7928,044
29,22080,5348,137
29,93683,3688,237
30,64686,2298,332
31,36089,1938,423
32,18492,2098,502
32,86995,2328,565
33,66198,3208,626
34,542101,4998,689
33,651104,7678,756
34,081108,1718,834

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

Saudi Arabia

  • 1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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.