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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Peru	Canada
Dec 31, 1999	273	20,963	30,510
Dec 31, 2000	274	21,291	30,796
Dec 31, 2001	275	21,631	31,132
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,980	31,473
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,339	31,758
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,707	32,055
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,055	32,360
Dec 31, 2006	281	23,380	32,688
Dec 31, 2007	282	23,708	33,007
Dec 31, 2008	283	23,944	33,367
Dec 31, 2009	285	24,087	33,750
Dec 31, 2010	286	24,228	34,127
Dec 31, 2011	287	24,364	34,463
Dec 31, 2012	288	24,491	34,839
Dec 31, 2013	289	24,607	35,209
Dec 31, 2014	290	24,714	35,565
Dec 31, 2015	291	24,812	35,831
Dec 31, 2016	291	24,904	36,239
Dec 31, 2017	292	24,999	36,677
Dec 31, 2018	293	25,403	37,198
Dec 31, 2019	294	25,966	37,736
Dec 31, 2020	294	26,308	38,174
Dec 31, 2021	295	26,508	38,383
Dec 31, 2022	295	26,771	38,685

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.

Canada

1820-1850: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1851-70: O.J. Firestone, "Canada's Changing Economy in the Second Half of the 19th Century", NBER, New York, 1957, processed, amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870)
1870-1926: M.C. Urquart and Associates, ed., Gross National Product, Canada 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993, pp. 11-12 and 24-5,
1926-1950: Statistics Canada, National Income and Expenditure Accounts, vol. 1, The Annual Estimates 1926-1974, Ottawa, 1975, p. 323. 1960 onwards from OECD, National Accounts.

No separate list is published for Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.