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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	Iceland	Belgium	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	10,227	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	10,252	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	10,288	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	10,334	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	10,377	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	10,422	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	10,480	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	10,549	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	10,627	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	10,711	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	10,797	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	10,897	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	11,039	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	11,108	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	11,160	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	11,210	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	11,275	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	11,332	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	11,376	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	11,429	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	11,491	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	11,546	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	11,594	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	11,695	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.

All data sources

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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

Belgium

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
1500- 1846: Buyst, E. (2011), “Towards Estimates of Long Term Growth in the Southern Low Countries, ca.1500-1846”, Results presented at the Conference on Quantifying Long Run Economic Development, Venice, 22-24 March, 2011
1846-1913: J. Gadisseur, "Contribution à l'étude de la production agricole en Belgique de 1846 à 1913", Revue belge d'histoire contemporaine, vol. IV, 1-2, 1973,
1913-1950: C. Carbonnelle, "Recherches sur levolution de la production en Belgique de 1900à 1957", Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, no. 3, April 1959, p. 358.

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.