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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Dominica	Peru	Barbados
Dec 31, 1999	70	20,963	273
Dec 31, 2000	71	21,291	274
Dec 31, 2001	71	21,631	275
Dec 31, 2002	72	21,980	276
Dec 31, 2003	72	22,339	278
Dec 31, 2004	72	22,707	279
Dec 31, 2005	72	23,055	280
Dec 31, 2006	72	23,380	281
Dec 31, 2007	72	23,708	282
Dec 31, 2008	73	23,944	283
Dec 31, 2009	73	24,087	285
Dec 31, 2010	73	24,228	286
Dec 31, 2011	73	24,364	287
Dec 31, 2012	73	24,491	288
Dec 31, 2013	73	24,607	289
Dec 31, 2014	73	24,714	290
Dec 31, 2015	74	24,812	291
Dec 31, 2016	74	24,904	291
Dec 31, 2017	74	24,999	292
Dec 31, 2018	74	25,403	293
Dec 31, 2019	75	25,966	294
Dec 31, 2020	75	26,308	294
Dec 31, 2021	76	26,508	295
Dec 31, 2022	76	26,771	295

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 Dominica, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.