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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Switzerland	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	273	7,258	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	274	7,296	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	275	7,332	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	276	7,384	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	278	7,438	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	279	7,488	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	280	7,532	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	281	7,579	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	282	7,647	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	283	7,738	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	285	7,825	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	286	7,884	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	287	7,959	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	288	8,044	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	289	8,137	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	290	8,237	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	291	8,332	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	291	8,423	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	292	8,502	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	293	8,565	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	294	8,626	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	294	8,689	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	295	8,756	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	295	8,834	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

Switzerland

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1850-2011: Stohr, Christian (2016), Trading Gains: new estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851-2008. Economic History Working Papers, 245/2016. London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department, London, UK

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.