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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	Belarus	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,064	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,034	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,000	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	276	9,955	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	278	9,905	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	279	9,856	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	280	9,807	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	281	9,764	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	282	9,734	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	283	9,713	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	285	9,697	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	286	9,681	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	287	9,662	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	288	9,643	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	289	9,624	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	290	9,605	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	291	9,585	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	291	9,564	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	292	9,542	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	293	9,519	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	294	9,495	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	294	9,469	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	295	9,442	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	295	9,400	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

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