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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Peru	France
Dec 31, 1999	273	20,963	60,396
Dec 31, 2000	274	21,291	60,811
Dec 31, 2001	275	21,631	61,255
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,980	61,703
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,339	62,141
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,707	62,600
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,055	63,073
Dec 31, 2006	281	23,380	63,513
Dec 31, 2007	282	23,708	63,906
Dec 31, 2008	283	23,944	64,264
Dec 31, 2009	285	24,087	64,594
Dec 31, 2010	286	24,228	64,913
Dec 31, 2011	287	24,364	65,231
Dec 31, 2012	288	24,491	65,552
Dec 31, 2013	289	24,607	65,891
Dec 31, 2014	290	24,714	66,212
Dec 31, 2015	291	24,812	66,480
Dec 31, 2016	291	24,904	66,730
Dec 31, 2017	292	24,999	67,015
Dec 31, 2018	293	25,403	67,347
Dec 31, 2019	294	25,966	67,660
Dec 31, 2020	294	26,308	67,901
Dec 31, 2021	295	26,508	68,114
Dec 31, 2022	295	26,771	68,387

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.

France

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
1276–1800: Ridolfi, L., & Nuvolari, A. (2021). L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850. European Review of Economic History, 25(3), 405–428
1850-1913: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987
1920-1950: Toutain, Le Produit interieur de la France de 1789 a 1982, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, 1987

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