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Population, long-run history by country

Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date BarbadosSudanAlbaniaPeru
27326,1683,08520,963
27426,7713,06521,291
27527,3873,04721,631
27628,0173,03821,980
27828,6623,02622,339
27929,3213,01422,707
28029,9962,99823,055
28130,6862,97923,380
28231,3932,95723,708
28332,1372,93423,944
28533,0782,91524,087
28633,8912,90024,228
28734,5682,89224,364
28835,2932,88824,491
28936,0932,88224,607
29037,0582,87624,714
29138,1652,86824,812
29139,2942,86324,904
29240,5122,86124,999
29341,7642,85425,403
29442,9522,84225,966
29444,1212,82526,308
29545,2902,79926,508
29546,4982,78726,771

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

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, Sudan, Albania; the database as a whole is cited above.