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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Switzerland	St. Lucia
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	7,258	152
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	7,296	153
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	7,332	154
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	7,384	155
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	7,438	156
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	7,488	157
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	7,532	157
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	7,579	158
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	7,647	159
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	7,738	160
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	7,825	160
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	7,884	161
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	7,959	162
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	8,044	162
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	8,137	163
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	8,237	163
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	8,332	164
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	8,423	164
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	8,502	165
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	8,565	166
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	8,626	166
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	8,689	167
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	8,756	167
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	8,834	167

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

United States

1650 - 1790: McCusker, John J., ‘Colonial Statistics’, Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press. V-671.
1790 - 1870: Sutch, R. (2006). National Income and Product. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Time to the Present, in S. B. Carter, S. S. Gartner, M. R. Haineset al. New York, Cambridge University Press III-23-25.
1800-1830: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data)
1820-1950: GDP movement from Maddison (1995a), amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870).

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 St. Lucia; the database as a whole is cited above.