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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Venezuela	Romania	Switzerland
Dec 31, 1999	23,188	22,414	7,258
Dec 31, 2000	23,601	22,262	7,296
Dec 31, 2001	24,011	22,106	7,332
Dec 31, 2002	24,425	21,931	7,384
Dec 31, 2003	24,841	21,828	7,438
Dec 31, 2004	25,255	21,704	7,488
Dec 31, 2005	25,667	21,571	7,532
Dec 31, 2006	26,079	21,443	7,579
Dec 31, 2007	26,589	21,129	7,647
Dec 31, 2008	27,098	20,779	7,738
Dec 31, 2009	27,510	20,607	7,825
Dec 31, 2010	27,920	20,485	7,884
Dec 31, 2011	28,327	20,385	7,959
Dec 31, 2012	28,722	20,296	8,044
Dec 31, 2013	29,111	20,224	8,137
Dec 31, 2014	29,418	20,151	8,237
Dec 31, 2015	29,693	20,055	8,332
Dec 31, 2016	29,961	19,938	8,423
Dec 31, 2017	29,856	19,823	8,502
Dec 31, 2018	28,858	19,713	8,565
Dec 31, 2019	27,921	19,622	8,626
Dec 31, 2020	27,871	19,496	8,689
Dec 31, 2021	28,316	19,351	8,756
Dec 31, 2022	28,418	19,266	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

Venezuela

1830–2012: De Corso, G. (2013). El crecimiento economico de Venuzuela, Desde la Oligarquia Conservadora Hasta La Revolucion Bolivariana: 1830-2012. Uno Vision cuantitativa *: Venezuelan Economic Growth From The Conservative Oligarchy To The Bolivarian Revolution (1830-2012), Revista De Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 31(3), 321-357. doi:10.1017/S0212610913000190

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