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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	South Korea	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	273	46,617	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	274	47,008	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	275	47,370	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	276	47,645	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	278	47,892	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	279	48,083	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	280	48,185	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	281	48,438	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	282	48,684	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	283	49,055	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	285	49,308	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	286	49,554	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	287	49,937	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	288	50,200	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	289	50,429	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	290	50,747	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	291	51,015	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	291	51,218	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	292	51,362	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	293	51,585	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	294	51,765	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	294	51,836	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	295	51,745	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	295	51,731	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

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995

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.