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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 ZambiaSwitzerlandComoros
10,3277,258531
10,6497,296545
10,9807,332559
11,2907,384574
11,5937,438590
11,9077,488606
12,2437,532623
12,6127,579640
13,0057,647657
13,4127,738674
13,8227,825690
14,2557,884706
14,7097,959722
15,1658,044737
15,6318,137752
16,1218,237767
16,6248,332781
17,1408,423795
17,6748,502808
18,2228,565821
18,7808,626837
19,3498,689853
19,9288,756869
20,4858,834885

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 Comoros; the database as a whole is cited above.