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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Nigeria	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	273	121,649	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	274	125,014	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	275	128,513	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	276	132,165	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	278	135,971	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	279	139,900	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	280	143,914	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	281	148,019	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	282	152,195	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	283	156,434	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	285	160,751	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	286	165,142	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	287	169,607	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	288	174,142	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	289	178,737	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	290	183,362	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	291	187,979	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	291	192,594	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	292	197,417	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	293	202,498	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	294	207,699	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	294	213,021	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	295	218,473	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	295	223,735	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

Nigeria

1885-1950: 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.