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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Peru	Norway
Dec 31, 1999	273	20,963	4,463
Dec 31, 2000	274	21,291	4,492
Dec 31, 2001	275	21,631	4,515
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,980	4,539
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,339	4,566
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,707	4,593
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,055	4,624
Dec 31, 2006	281	23,380	4,662
Dec 31, 2007	282	23,708	4,710
Dec 31, 2008	283	23,944	4,769
Dec 31, 2009	285	24,087	4,830
Dec 31, 2010	286	24,228	4,890
Dec 31, 2011	287	24,364	4,954
Dec 31, 2012	288	24,491	5,020
Dec 31, 2013	289	24,607	5,081
Dec 31, 2014	290	24,714	5,138
Dec 31, 2015	291	24,812	5,191
Dec 31, 2016	291	24,904	5,237
Dec 31, 2017	292	24,999	5,278
Dec 31, 2018	293	25,403	5,313
Dec 31, 2019	294	25,966	5,349
Dec 31, 2020	294	26,308	5,380
Dec 31, 2021	295	26,508	5,409
Dec 31, 2022	295	26,771	5,458

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.

Norway

1820–1930: Grytten, O.H. (2015). Norwegian gross domestic product by industry 1830 - 1930, Norges Bank Working paper 19/2015. Population from Maddison (2006)
1930-1950: Central Bureau of Statistics Norway, 1970 and Maddison, A. Monintoring the World Economy, 1995

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