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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Peru	Spain
Dec 31, 1999	273	20,963	40,378
Dec 31, 2000	274	21,291	40,563
Dec 31, 2001	275	21,631	40,775
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,980	41,433
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,339	42,205
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,707	42,869
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,055	43,672
Dec 31, 2006	281	23,380	44,370
Dec 31, 2007	282	23,708	45,246
Dec 31, 2008	283	23,944	45,993
Dec 31, 2009	285	24,087	46,378
Dec 31, 2010	286	24,228	46,573
Dec 31, 2011	287	24,364	46,746
Dec 31, 2012	288	24,491	46,777
Dec 31, 2013	289	24,607	46,603
Dec 31, 2014	290	24,714	46,465
Dec 31, 2015	291	24,812	46,420
Dec 31, 2016	291	24,904	46,460
Dec 31, 2017	292	24,999	46,543
Dec 31, 2018	293	25,403	46,739
Dec 31, 2019	294	25,966	47,116
Dec 31, 2020	294	26,308	47,366
Dec 31, 2021	295	26,508	47,342
Dec 31, 2022	295	26,771	47,625

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.

Spain

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
1270-1850: Álvarez-Nogal, C. and L. Prados de la Escosura (2013). "The Rise and Fall of Spain (1270-1850)," Economic History Review, 66, 1, 1-37, using their annual benchmarks
1850–2011: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2017), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (London: Palgrave Macmillan)

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