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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	Moldova	Peru	Estonia
Dec 31, 1999	273	4,244	20,963	1,378
Dec 31, 2000	274	4,199	21,291	1,400
Dec 31, 2001	275	4,154	21,631	1,391
Dec 31, 2002	276	4,108	21,980	1,382
Dec 31, 2003	278	4,059	22,339	1,374
Dec 31, 2004	279	4,013	22,707	1,365
Dec 31, 2005	280	3,966	23,055	1,357
Dec 31, 2006	281	3,919	23,380	1,349
Dec 31, 2007	282	3,873	23,708	1,341
Dec 31, 2008	283	3,829	23,944	1,337
Dec 31, 2009	285	3,788	24,087	1,334
Dec 31, 2010	286	3,748	24,228	1,332
Dec 31, 2011	287	3,709	24,364	1,328
Dec 31, 2012	288	3,671	24,491	1,324
Dec 31, 2013	289	3,633	24,607	1,319
Dec 31, 2014	290	3,595	24,714	1,314
Dec 31, 2015	291	3,558	24,812	1,312
Dec 31, 2016	291	3,522	24,904	1,314
Dec 31, 2017	292	3,485	24,999	1,314
Dec 31, 2018	293	3,448	25,403	1,318
Dec 31, 2019	294	3,412	25,966	1,323
Dec 31, 2020	294	3,376	26,308	1,327
Dec 31, 2021	295	3,339	26,508	1,329
Dec 31, 2022	295	3,570	26,771	1,330

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, Moldova, Estonia; the database as a whole is cited above.