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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	Romania	Malta
Dec 31, 1999	273	20,963	22,414	387
Dec 31, 2000	274	21,291	22,262	390
Dec 31, 2001	275	21,631	22,106	393
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,980	21,931	396
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,339	21,828	398
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,707	21,704	401
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,055	21,571	404
Dec 31, 2006	281	23,380	21,443	405
Dec 31, 2007	282	23,708	21,129	406
Dec 31, 2008	283	23,944	20,779	409
Dec 31, 2009	285	24,087	20,607	412
Dec 31, 2010	286	24,228	20,485	414
Dec 31, 2011	287	24,364	20,385	416
Dec 31, 2012	288	24,491	20,296	420
Dec 31, 2013	289	24,607	20,224	426
Dec 31, 2014	290	24,714	20,151	435
Dec 31, 2015	291	24,812	20,055	445
Dec 31, 2016	291	24,904	19,938	455
Dec 31, 2017	292	24,999	19,823	468
Dec 31, 2018	293	25,403	19,713	485
Dec 31, 2019	294	25,966	19,622	504
Dec 31, 2020	294	26,308	19,496	516
Dec 31, 2021	295	26,508	19,351	518
Dec 31, 2022	295	26,771	19,266	530

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.

All data sources

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

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