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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	Peru	Belgium
Dec 31, 1999	273	277	20,963	10,227
Dec 31, 2000	274	281	21,291	10,252
Dec 31, 2001	275	285	21,631	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	276	288	21,980	10,334
Dec 31, 2003	278	289	22,339	10,377
Dec 31, 2004	279	293	22,707	10,422
Dec 31, 2005	280	296	23,055	10,480
Dec 31, 2006	281	304	23,380	10,549
Dec 31, 2007	282	311	23,708	10,627
Dec 31, 2008	283	319	23,944	10,711
Dec 31, 2009	285	319	24,087	10,797
Dec 31, 2010	286	318	24,228	10,897
Dec 31, 2011	287	319	24,364	11,039
Dec 31, 2012	288	321	24,491	11,108
Dec 31, 2013	289	324	24,607	11,160
Dec 31, 2014	290	327	24,714	11,210
Dec 31, 2015	291	331	24,812	11,275
Dec 31, 2016	291	335	24,904	11,332
Dec 31, 2017	292	343	24,999	11,376
Dec 31, 2018	293	353	25,403	11,429
Dec 31, 2019	294	361	25,966	11,491
Dec 31, 2020	294	366	26,308	11,546
Dec 31, 2021	295	372	26,508	11,594
Dec 31, 2022	295	380	26,771	11,695

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.

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.

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.

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.