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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 ZambiaSwitzerlandCongo - Kinshasa
10,3277,25851,181
10,6497,29652,782
10,9807,33254,453
11,2907,38456,170
11,5937,43857,860
11,9077,48859,599
12,2437,53261,474
12,6127,57963,479
13,0057,64765,590
13,4127,73867,800
13,8227,82570,114
14,2557,88472,550
14,7097,95975,138
15,1658,04477,792
15,6318,13780,534
16,1218,23783,368
16,6248,33286,229
17,1408,42389,193
17,6748,50292,209
18,2228,56595,232
18,7808,62698,320
19,3498,689101,499
19,9288,756104,767
20,4858,834108,171

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

Zambia

  • 1906-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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