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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	Qatar
Dec 31, 1999	273	3,085	20,963	627
Dec 31, 2000	274	3,065	21,291	659
Dec 31, 2001	275	3,047	21,631	691
Dec 31, 2002	276	3,038	21,980	724
Dec 31, 2003	278	3,026	22,339	757
Dec 31, 2004	279	3,014	22,707	850
Dec 31, 2005	280	2,998	23,055	1,001
Dec 31, 2006	281	2,979	23,380	1,153
Dec 31, 2007	282	2,957	23,708	1,306
Dec 31, 2008	283	2,934	23,944	1,460
Dec 31, 2009	285	2,915	24,087	1,615
Dec 31, 2010	286	2,900	24,228	1,770
Dec 31, 2011	287	2,892	24,364	1,904
Dec 31, 2012	288	2,888	24,491	2,010
Dec 31, 2013	289	2,882	24,607	2,103
Dec 31, 2014	290	2,876	24,714	2,187
Dec 31, 2015	291	2,868	24,812	2,261
Dec 31, 2016	291	2,863	24,904	2,326
Dec 31, 2017	292	2,861	24,999	2,384
Dec 31, 2018	293	2,854	25,403	2,435
Dec 31, 2019	294	2,842	25,966	2,480
Dec 31, 2020	294	2,825	26,308	2,519
Dec 31, 2021	295	2,799	26,508	2,553
Dec 31, 2022	295	2,787	26,771	2,559

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, Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.