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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 SudanOmanSwitzerland
26,1682,3487,258
26,7712,4037,296
27,3872,4577,332
28,0172,5107,384
28,6622,5627,438
29,3212,6137,488
29,9962,6637,532
30,6862,7137,579
31,3932,7647,647
32,1372,8167,738
33,0782,8717,825
33,8912,9287,884
34,5682,9867,959
35,2933,0478,044
36,0933,1108,137
37,0583,1748,237
38,1653,2408,332
39,2943,3078,423
40,5123,3758,502
41,7643,4448,565
42,9523,5128,626
44,1213,5828,689
45,2903,6518,756
46,4983,6968,834

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