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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Peru	Egypt
Dec 31, 1999	273	20,963	66,001
Dec 31, 2000	274	21,291	67,377
Dec 31, 2001	275	21,631	68,790
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,980	70,269
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,339	71,785
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,707	73,298
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,055	74,832
Dec 31, 2006	281	23,380	76,432
Dec 31, 2007	282	23,708	78,140
Dec 31, 2008	283	23,944	79,945
Dec 31, 2009	285	24,087	81,840
Dec 31, 2010	286	24,228	83,844
Dec 31, 2011	287	24,364	85,969
Dec 31, 2012	288	24,491	88,198
Dec 31, 2013	289	24,607	90,566
Dec 31, 2014	290	24,714	93,009
Dec 31, 2015	291	24,812	95,432
Dec 31, 2016	291	24,904	97,882
Dec 31, 2017	292	24,999	100,303
Dec 31, 2018	293	25,403	102,617
Dec 31, 2019	294	25,966	104,816
Dec 31, 2020	294	26,308	106,893
Dec 31, 2021	295	26,508	108,871
Dec 31, 2022	295	26,771	110,593

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.

Egypt

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 – 1500: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011.
1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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