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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Germany	Peru	Senegal
Dec 31, 1999	81,439	20,963	10,070
Dec 31, 2000	81,474	21,291	10,305
Dec 31, 2001	81,534	21,631	10,576
Dec 31, 2002	81,595	21,980	10,864
Dec 31, 2003	81,566	22,339	11,172
Dec 31, 2004	81,473	22,707	11,498
Dec 31, 2005	81,354	23,055	11,839
Dec 31, 2006	81,190	23,380	12,204
Dec 31, 2007	81,009	23,708	12,584
Dec 31, 2008	80,781	23,944	12,978
Dec 31, 2009	80,500	24,087	13,382
Dec 31, 2010	80,301	24,228	13,794
Dec 31, 2011	80,292	24,364	14,226
Dec 31, 2012	80,443	24,491	14,668
Dec 31, 2013	80,663	24,607	15,121
Dec 31, 2014	81,000	24,714	15,589
Dec 31, 2015	81,704	24,812	16,066
Dec 31, 2016	82,366	24,904	16,549
Dec 31, 2017	82,674	24,999	17,044
Dec 31, 2018	82,923	25,403	17,535
Dec 31, 2019	83,110	25,966	18,021
Dec 31, 2020	83,178	26,308	18,518
Dec 31, 2021	83,213	26,508	19,016
Dec 31, 2022	83,811	26,771	19,512

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

Germany

1500-1850: Pfister, U. (2022). Economic Growth in Germany, 1500–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 82(4), 1071–1107
1850-1950: Hoffmann, Grumbach and Hesse, op. cit., pp. 454-5.

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 Senegal; the database as a whole is cited above.