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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Peru	Indonesia
Dec 31, 1999	273	20,963	208,105
Dec 31, 2000	274	21,291	211,408
Dec 31, 2001	275	21,631	214,475
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,980	217,516
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,339	220,549
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,707	224,473
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,055	227,534
Dec 31, 2006	281	23,380	230,739
Dec 31, 2007	282	23,708	233,918
Dec 31, 2008	283	23,944	237,056
Dec 31, 2009	285	24,087	240,140
Dec 31, 2010	286	24,228	243,171
Dec 31, 2011	287	24,364	246,150
Dec 31, 2012	288	24,491	249,086
Dec 31, 2013	289	24,607	251,947
Dec 31, 2014	290	24,714	254,702
Dec 31, 2015	291	24,812	257,351
Dec 31, 2016	291	24,904	259,906
Dec 31, 2017	292	24,999	262,379
Dec 31, 2018	293	25,403	264,789
Dec 31, 2019	294	25,966	267,142
Dec 31, 2020	294	26,308	269,437
Dec 31, 2021	295	26,508	271,674
Dec 31, 2022	295	26,771	273,409

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.

Indonesia

1815 – 1880 (Java): Van Zanden (2012). “Economic Growth in Java 1815-1939: The Reconstruction of the Historical National Accounts of a Colonial Economy”, Maddison-Project Working Paper WP-3.
1880-2008: Van der Eng, P. (2010). The Sources of Long-Term Economic Growth in Indonesia, 1880-2008”, Explorations in Economic History, 47: 294-309

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