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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Australia	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	273	18,692	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	274	18,907	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	275	19,151	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	276	19,371	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	278	19,595	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	279	19,805	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	280	20,048	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	281	20,320	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	282	20,694	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	283	21,113	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	285	21,553	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	286	21,891	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	287	22,197	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	288	22,588	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	289	22,980	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	290	23,326	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	291	23,664	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	291	24,036	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	292	24,445	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	293	24,823	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	294	25,204	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	294	25,529	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	295	25,574	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	295	25,826	26,771

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

Australia

1820-1828: Butlin, N.G. 'Our 200 Years', Queesland Calendar, 1988
1828-1860: N.G. Butlin, "Contours of the Australian Economy 1788-1860", Australian Economic Review, Sept. 1986, pp. 112-13;
1861-1938/9: N.G. Butlin, Australian Domestic Product, Investment and Foreign Borrowing 1861-1938/9, Cambridge, 1962,pp.460-1; amdended as indicated in N.G. Butlin, Investment in Australian Economic Development 1861-19000, Cambridge, 1964, p. 453 and with revised deflator shown in M.W. Butlin, A Preliminary Annual Databae 1900/1901 to 1973/1974, Discussion Paper 7701, Reserve Bank of Australia, 1977, p. 41
1938/9-1950: from expenditure aggregates in 1966/7 prices in M.W. Butlin, RS/FLW/, p.85.

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; the database as a whole is cited above.