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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	Germany	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	81,439	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	81,474	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	81,534	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	81,595	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	81,566	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	81,473	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	81,354	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	81,190	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	81,009	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	80,781	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	80,500	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	80,301	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	80,292	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	80,443	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	80,663	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	81,000	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	81,704	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	82,366	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	82,674	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	82,923	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	83,110	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	83,178	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	83,213	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	83,811	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.

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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.