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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	Peru	Dominican Republic
Dec 31, 1999	273	20,963	8,175
Dec 31, 2000	274	21,291	8,301
Dec 31, 2001	275	21,631	8,427
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,980	8,553
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,339	8,678
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,707	8,801
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,055	8,924
Dec 31, 2006	281	23,380	9,044
Dec 31, 2007	282	23,708	9,164
Dec 31, 2008	283	23,944	9,281
Dec 31, 2009	285	24,087	9,398
Dec 31, 2010	286	24,228	9,512
Dec 31, 2011	287	24,364	9,627
Dec 31, 2012	288	24,491	9,742
Dec 31, 2013	289	24,607	9,855
Dec 31, 2014	290	24,714	9,965
Dec 31, 2015	291	24,812	10,072
Dec 31, 2016	291	24,904	10,177
Dec 31, 2017	292	24,999	10,281
Dec 31, 2018	293	25,403	10,385
Dec 31, 2019	294	25,966	10,487
Dec 31, 2020	294	26,308	10,587
Dec 31, 2021	295	26,508	10,686
Dec 31, 2022	295	26,771	10,793

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.

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