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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	Bolivia	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	273	8,007	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	274	8,177	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	275	8,351	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	276	8,529	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	278	8,711	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	279	8,895	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	280	9,081	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	281	9,268	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	282	9,457	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	283	9,647	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	285	9,836	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,024	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	287	10,211	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	288	10,397	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,581	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,763	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,942	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	291	11,118	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	292	11,289	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	293	11,456	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	294	11,621	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	294	11,775	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	295	11,917	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	295	12,060	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

Bolivia

1846-1950: Herranz-Loncán, A. and Peres-Cajías (2016). “Bolivian GDP per capita since the mid-nineteenth century” Cliometrica 10: 99-128

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.