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Population, long-run history

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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date DenmarkPeruCongo - Kinshasa
5,32220,96351,181
5,33921,29152,782
5,35821,63154,453
5,37721,98056,170
5,39122,33957,860
5,40422,70759,599
5,42023,05561,474
5,43823,38063,479
5,46123,70865,590
5,49423,94467,800
5,52424,08770,114
5,54824,22872,550
5,57124,36475,138
5,59224,49177,792
5,61424,60780,534
5,64424,71483,368
5,68324,81286,229
5,73024,90489,193
5,76624,99992,209
5,79525,40395,232
5,81825,96698,320
5,83126,308101,499
5,85526,508104,767
5,90726,771108,171

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

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 Denmark, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.