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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Kenya	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	273	30,192	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	274	31,025	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	275	31,919	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	276	32,865	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	278	33,846	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	279	34,880	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	280	35,961	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	281	37,093	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	282	38,248	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	283	39,441	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	285	40,668	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	286	41,900	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	287	43,198	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	288	44,470	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	289	45,639	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	290	46,808	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	291	47,983	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	291	49,095	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	292	50,201	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	293	51,357	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	294	52,522	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	294	53,691	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	295	54,867	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	295	55,924	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

Kenya

1904-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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.