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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Albania	Peru	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,085	20,963	387
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,065	21,291	390
Dec 31, 2001	275	3,047	21,631	393
Dec 31, 2002	276	3,038	21,980	396
Dec 31, 2003	278	3,026	22,339	398
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,014	22,707	401
Dec 31, 2005	280	2,998	23,055	404
Dec 31, 2006	281	2,979	23,380	405
Dec 31, 2007	282	2,957	23,708	406
Dec 31, 2008	283	2,934	23,944	409
Dec 31, 2009	285	2,915	24,087	412
Dec 31, 2010	286	2,900	24,228	414
Dec 31, 2011	287	2,892	24,364	416
Dec 31, 2012	288	2,888	24,491	420
Dec 31, 2013	289	2,882	24,607	426
Dec 31, 2014	290	2,876	24,714	435
Dec 31, 2015	291	2,868	24,812	445
Dec 31, 2016	291	2,863	24,904	455
Dec 31, 2017	292	2,861	24,999	468
Dec 31, 2018	293	2,854	25,403	485
Dec 31, 2019	294	2,842	25,966	504
Dec 31, 2020	294	2,825	26,308	516
Dec 31, 2021	295	2,799	26,508	518
Dec 31, 2022	295	2,787	26,771	530

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.

All data sources

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

Peru

1600–1812: Arroyo Abad, L. and J.L. van Zanden (2016), “Growth under Extractive Institutions? Latin American Per Capita GDP in Colonial Times” Journal of Economic History 76(4): 1182–1215.
1812–1870: Seminario, B. (2015). El Desarrallo de la Economía Peruana en la Era Moderna, Universidad de Pacifico, Lima
1870-1901: Bertola, L and Ocampo, J.A. (2012) The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence. Oxford, Oxford U.P, Table A2
1900-1913: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1913-1941: C.A. Bolona Behr, "Tariff Policies in Peru, 1880-1980", Ph.D. thesis, Oxford University, 1981;
1942-1950: "Cuadros del producto interno bruto en dollares de 1950", CEPAL, Santiago, October 1962, mimeographed;
1945-1950: Series Historicas del Crecimiento de America Latina, CEPAL, Santiago, 1978.

No separate list is published for Barbados, Albania, Malta; the database as a whole is cited above.