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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Canada	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	277	30,510	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	281	30,796	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	285	31,132	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	288	31,473	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	289	31,758	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	293	32,055	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	296	32,360	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	304	32,688	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	311	33,007	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	319	33,367	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	319	33,750	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	318	34,127	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	319	34,463	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	321	34,839	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	324	35,209	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	327	35,565	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	331	35,831	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	335	36,239	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	343	36,677	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	353	37,198	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	361	37,736	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	366	38,174	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	372	38,383	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	380	38,685	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.

Canada

1820-1850: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1851-70: O.J. Firestone, "Canada's Changing Economy in the Second Half of the 19th Century", NBER, New York, 1957, processed, amended for 1820–70 to include income of the indigenous population (taken to be $400 per capita in 1820 and 1870)
1870-1926: M.C. Urquart and Associates, ed., Gross National Product, Canada 1870-1926: The Derivation of the Estimates, McGill Queen's University Press, Montreal, 1993, pp. 11-12 and 24-5,
1926-1950: Statistics Canada, National Income and Expenditure Accounts, vol. 1, The Annual Estimates 1926-1974, Ottawa, 1975, p. 323. 1960 onwards from OECD, National Accounts.

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.