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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 SenegalCongo - KinshasaSwitzerland
10,07051,1817,258
10,30552,7827,296
10,57654,4537,332
10,86456,1707,384
11,17257,8607,438
11,49859,5997,488
11,83961,4747,532
12,20463,4797,579
12,58465,5907,647
12,97867,8007,738
13,38270,1147,825
13,79472,5507,884
14,22675,1387,959
14,66877,7928,044
15,12180,5348,137
15,58983,3688,237
16,06686,2298,332
16,54989,1938,423
17,04492,2098,502
17,53595,2328,565
18,02198,3208,626
18,518101,4998,689
19,016104,7678,756
19,512108,1718,834

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