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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Afghanistan	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	277	22,206	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	281	22,461	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	285	22,507	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	288	23,600	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	289	25,005	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	293	25,698	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	296	26,335	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	304	27,154	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	311	27,387	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	319	27,706	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	319	28,484	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	318	29,121	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	319	29,758	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	321	30,420	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	324	31,108	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	327	31,823	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	331	32,564	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	335	33,332	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	343	34,125	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	353	34,941	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	361	35,972	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	366	37,034	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,127	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	380	39,252	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.

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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

Iceland

1870-1945: Jonsson, G. (1998). The gross domestic product of Iceland, 1870-1945. Nordiska Historiska Nasjonalregnkaper, Artikkelsamling from Workshop IV, Solstrand 13-15 NOvember 1998.

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 Afghanistan; the database as a whole is cited above.