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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Spain	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	273	40,378	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	274	40,563	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	275	40,775	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	276	41,433	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	278	42,205	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	279	42,869	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	280	43,672	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	281	44,370	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	282	45,246	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	283	45,993	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	285	46,378	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	286	46,573	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	287	46,746	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	288	46,777	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	289	46,603	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	290	46,465	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	291	46,420	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	291	46,460	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	292	46,543	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	293	46,739	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	294	47,116	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	294	47,366	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	295	47,342	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	295	47,625	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

Spain

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
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)

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.