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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Ecuador	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	277	12,268	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	281	12,446	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	285	12,629	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	288	12,827	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	289	13,074	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	293	13,368	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	296	13,661	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	304	13,915	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	311	14,133	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	319	14,352	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	319	14,569	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	318	14,786	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	319	15,002	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	321	15,218	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	324	15,433	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	327	15,647	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	331	15,860	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	335	16,072	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	343	16,282	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	353	16,489	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	361	16,693	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	366	16,894	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	372	17,093	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	380	17,288	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.

Ecuador

1833-1938: Prados de la Escosura, L. (2009). “Lost Decades? Economic Performance in Post-Independence Latin America,” Journal of Latin America Studies 41: 279–307. (updated data). We use the growth rate between 1933 and 1938 from Prados de la Escosura (2009) and link that to the 1939 level of Maddison’s original estimates.

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.