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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	United States	Serbia	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	279,040	7,611	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	282,162	7,587	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	284,969	7,574	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	287,625	7,570	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	290,108	7,551	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	292,805	7,533	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	295,517	7,510	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	298,380	7,481	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	301,231	7,451	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	304,094	7,419	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	306,772	7,389	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	309,327	7,360	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	311,583	7,304	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	313,878	7,269	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	316,060	7,234	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	318,386	7,199	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	320,739	7,162	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	323,072	7,124	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	325,122	7,087	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	326,838	7,048	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	328,330	7,010	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	331,512	6,964	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	332,032	6,898	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	333,288	6,833	8,834

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

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).

Serbia

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project

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