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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosPeruBurkina FasoCongo - Kinshasa
27320,96311,07551,181
27421,29111,40552,782
27521,63111,82854,453
27621,98012,38056,170
27822,33912,82957,860
27922,70713,17859,599
28023,05513,54061,474
28123,38013,91763,479
28223,70814,30965,590
28323,94414,72267,800
28524,08715,15270,114
28624,22815,60072,550
28724,36416,06475,138
28824,49116,56377,792
28924,60717,07280,534
29024,71417,57583,368
29124,81218,09486,229
29124,90418,62189,193
29224,99919,15792,209
29325,40319,69895,232
29425,96620,24298,320
29426,30820,788101,499
29526,50821,336104,767
29526,77121,889108,171

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, Burkina Faso, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.