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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	Sri Lanka	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	273	19,354	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	274	19,610	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	275	19,838	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	276	20,060	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	278	20,297	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	279	20,529	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	280	20,703	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	281	20,917	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	282	21,120	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	283	21,315	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	285	21,503	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	286	21,713	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	287	21,918	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	288	22,120	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	289	22,320	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	290	22,517	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	291	22,711	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	291	22,899	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	292	23,080	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	293	23,254	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	294	23,420	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	294	23,579	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	295	23,732	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	295	23,796	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

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, Sri Lanka; the database as a whole is cited above.