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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 Sierra LeoneCongo - KinshasaSwitzerland
3,73651,1817,258
3,80952,7827,296
4,04354,4537,332
4,28756,1707,384
4,46657,8607,438
4,60259,5997,488
4,70861,4747,532
4,81863,4797,579
4,91865,5907,647
5,02367,8007,738
5,13270,1147,825
5,24672,5507,884
5,36475,1387,959
5,48677,7928,044
5,61380,5348,137
5,74483,3688,237
5,87986,2298,332
6,01989,1938,423
6,16392,2098,502
6,31295,2328,565
6,46198,3208,626
6,611101,4998,689
6,761104,7678,756
6,910108,1718,834

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

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 Sierra Leone, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.