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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Peru	China
Dec 31, 1999	273	20,963	1,248,899
Dec 31, 2000	274	21,291	1,258,401
Dec 31, 2001	275	21,631	1,267,178
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,980	1,275,379
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,339	1,283,064
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,707	1,290,620
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,055	1,298,245
Dec 31, 2006	281	23,380	1,305,116
Dec 31, 2007	282	23,708	1,311,877
Dec 31, 2008	283	23,944	1,318,559
Dec 31, 2009	285	24,087	1,324,993
Dec 31, 2010	286	24,228	1,331,357
Dec 31, 2011	287	24,364	1,339,549
Dec 31, 2012	288	24,491	1,349,537
Dec 31, 2013	289	24,607	1,357,520
Dec 31, 2014	290	24,714	1,366,654
Dec 31, 2015	291	24,812	1,373,406
Dec 31, 2016	291	24,904	1,382,401
Dec 31, 2017	292	24,999	1,390,136
Dec 31, 2018	293	25,403	1,395,398
Dec 31, 2019	294	25,966	1,400,035
Dec 31, 2020	294	26,308	1,402,060
Dec 31, 2021	295	26,508	1,402,537
Dec 31, 2022	295	26,771	1,401,693

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.

China

1000-1661: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Broadberry, S.N., Guan, Hanhui and David Daokui Li (2018), “China, Europe and the Great Divergence: a Study in Historical National Accounting, 980-1850”, Journal of Economic History, 78, 4, 955-1000
1661–1933: Xu, Y. Z. Shi, B. van Leeuwen, Y Ni, Z Zhang, and Y Ma, (2016) 'Chinese National Income, ca. 1661-1933', Australian Economic History Review 57(3), 368–393
1952–2008: Wu, Harry X. (2014), “China’s growth and productivity performance debate revisited – Accounting for China’s sources of growth with a new data set” The Conference Board Economics Program Working Paper Series EWP#14-01.

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