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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	Saudi Arabia	Oman	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	273	19,964	2,348	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	274	20,426	2,403	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	275	20,956	2,457	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	276	21,549	2,510	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	278	22,189	2,562	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	279	22,850	2,613	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	280	23,516	2,663	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	281	24,178	2,713	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	282	24,841	2,764	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	283	25,518	2,816	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	285	26,227	2,871	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	286	27,068	2,928	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	287	27,810	2,986	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	288	28,516	3,047	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	289	29,220	3,110	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	290	29,936	3,174	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	291	30,646	3,240	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	291	31,360	3,307	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	292	32,184	3,375	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	293	32,869	3,444	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	294	33,661	3,512	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	294	34,542	3,582	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	295	33,651	3,651	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	295	34,081	3,696	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.

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

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

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, Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.