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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Barbados	Portugal	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	273	10,144	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	274	10,215	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	275	10,288	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	276	10,344	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	278	10,383	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	279	10,408	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	280	10,427	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	281	10,446	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	282	10,467	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	283	10,482	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	285	10,492	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	286	10,497	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	287	10,481	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	288	10,439	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	289	10,382	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	290	10,326	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	291	10,283	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	291	10,251	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	292	10,226	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	293	10,209	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	294	10,212	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	294	10,223	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	295	10,214	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	295	10,200	26,771

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

Portugal

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,

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.

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