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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Peru	Malawi
Dec 31, 1999	273	20,963	11,310
Dec 31, 2000	274	21,291	11,658
Dec 31, 2001	275	21,631	12,020
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,980	12,395
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,339	12,786
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,707	13,196
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,055	13,625
Dec 31, 2006	281	23,380	14,072
Dec 31, 2007	282	23,708	14,539
Dec 31, 2008	283	23,944	15,026
Dec 31, 2009	285	24,087	15,525
Dec 31, 2010	286	24,228	16,028
Dec 31, 2011	287	24,364	16,534
Dec 31, 2012	288	24,491	17,042
Dec 31, 2013	289	24,607	17,551
Dec 31, 2014	290	24,714	18,060
Dec 31, 2015	291	24,812	18,571
Dec 31, 2016	291	24,904	19,086
Dec 31, 2017	292	24,999	19,603
Dec 31, 2018	293	25,403	20,122
Dec 31, 2019	294	25,966	20,640
Dec 31, 2020	294	26,308	21,159
Dec 31, 2021	295	26,508	21,677
Dec 31, 2022	295	26,771	22,239

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.

Malawi

1904-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.

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