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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	Laos	Peru	Sudan
Dec 31, 1999	273	5,286	20,963	26,168
Dec 31, 2000	274	5,397	21,291	26,771
Dec 31, 2001	275	5,499	21,631	27,387
Dec 31, 2002	276	5,578	21,980	28,017
Dec 31, 2003	278	5,654	22,339	28,662
Dec 31, 2004	279	5,746	22,707	29,321
Dec 31, 2005	280	5,836	23,055	29,996
Dec 31, 2006	281	5,931	23,380	30,686
Dec 31, 2007	282	6,035	23,708	31,393
Dec 31, 2008	283	6,145	23,944	32,137
Dec 31, 2009	285	6,257	24,087	33,078
Dec 31, 2010	286	6,368	24,228	33,891
Dec 31, 2011	287	6,477	24,364	34,568
Dec 31, 2012	288	6,586	24,491	35,293
Dec 31, 2013	289	6,695	24,607	36,093
Dec 31, 2014	290	6,804	24,714	37,058
Dec 31, 2015	291	6,912	24,812	38,165
Dec 31, 2016	291	7,019	24,904	39,294
Dec 31, 2017	292	7,127	24,999	40,512
Dec 31, 2018	293	7,234	25,403	41,764
Dec 31, 2019	294	7,343	25,966	42,952
Dec 31, 2020	294	7,452	26,308	44,121
Dec 31, 2021	295	7,560	26,508	45,290
Dec 31, 2022	295	7,666	26,771	46,498

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

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, Laos, Sudan; the database as a whole is cited above.