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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Peru	Hungary
Dec 31, 1999	273	20,963	10,244
Dec 31, 2000	274	21,291	10,218
Dec 31, 2001	275	21,631	10,194
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,980	10,165
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,339	10,136
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,707	10,114
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,055	10,094
Dec 31, 2006	281	23,380	10,078
Dec 31, 2007	282	23,708	10,062
Dec 31, 2008	283	23,944	10,045
Dec 31, 2009	285	24,087	10,029
Dec 31, 2010	286	24,228	10,007
Dec 31, 2011	287	24,364	9,978
Dec 31, 2012	288	24,491	9,927
Dec 31, 2013	289	24,607	9,900
Dec 31, 2014	290	24,714	9,873
Dec 31, 2015	291	24,812	9,850
Dec 31, 2016	291	24,904	9,821
Dec 31, 2017	292	24,999	9,794
Dec 31, 2018	293	25,403	9,782
Dec 31, 2019	294	25,966	9,778
Dec 31, 2020	294	26,308	9,757
Dec 31, 2021	295	26,508	9,716
Dec 31, 2022	295	26,771	9,690

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.

Hungary

1870-1913: L. Katus, "Economic Growth in Hungary during the Age of Dualism (1867-1913)" in E. Pemlenyi, ed., Social Economic Research in the History of East Central Europe, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, 1970, p.108 and J. Komlos, The Habsburg Monarchy as a Customs Union, Princeton, 1983, pp. 291-3
1900-42: A. Eckstein, "National Income and Capital Formation in Hungary, 1900-50", in S. Kuznets, ed., Income and Wealth, series V GNP index, Bowes and Bowes, London, 1955, p. 175
1938-50: from L. Czirjak, "Hungarian GNP by Sectors of Origin of Product and End Uses, 1938 and 1946-67", Occasional Paper 43, Research Project on East Central Europe, New York, 1973.

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