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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Laos	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	277	5,286	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	281	5,397	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	285	5,499	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	288	5,578	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	289	5,654	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	293	5,746	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	296	5,836	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	304	5,931	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	311	6,035	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	319	6,145	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	319	6,257	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	318	6,368	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	319	6,477	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	321	6,586	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	324	6,695	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	327	6,804	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	331	6,912	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	335	7,019	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	343	7,127	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	353	7,234	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	361	7,343	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	366	7,452	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	372	7,560	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	380	7,666	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 Laos; the database as a whole is cited above.