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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 Trinidad & TobagoRomaniaSwitzerland
1,30122,4147,258
1,30322,2627,296
1,30822,1067,332
1,31421,9317,384
1,32021,8287,438
1,32621,7047,488
1,33221,5717,532
1,33821,4437,579
1,34421,1297,647
1,35220,7797,738
1,35920,6077,825
1,36520,4857,884
1,37220,3857,959
1,37920,2968,044
1,38620,2248,137
1,39220,1518,237
1,39920,0558,332
1,40519,9388,423
1,41119,8238,502
1,43619,7138,565
1,45219,6228,626
1,44819,4968,689
1,45019,3518,756
1,45619,2668,834

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

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 Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.