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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Brazil	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	273	174,320	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	274	176,902	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	275	179,389	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	276	181,721	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	278	183,970	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	279	186,165	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	280	188,330	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	281	190,438	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	282	192,450	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	283	194,458	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	285	196,464	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	286	198,408	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	287	200,152	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	288	201,894	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	289	203,614	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	290	205,358	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	291	207,148	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	291	208,859	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	292	210,537	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	293	212,258	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	294	213,940	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	294	215,577	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	295	216,720	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	295	217,718	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

Brazil

1800 - 1870: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307 (updated data)
1850–1899: Barro, R.J. and J.F. Ursua, (2008). “Macroeconomic Crises since 1870” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, vol. 39(1 (Spring), pages 255-350
1900-1950: A. Maddison and Associates, The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity and Growth: Brazil and Mexico, Oxford University Press, New York 1992;

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.