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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Peru	Lithuania
Dec 31, 1999	277	20,963	3,419
Dec 31, 2000	281	21,291	3,395
Dec 31, 2001	285	21,631	3,367
Dec 31, 2002	288	21,980	3,340
Dec 31, 2003	289	22,339	3,313
Dec 31, 2004	293	22,707	3,276
Dec 31, 2005	296	23,055	3,223
Dec 31, 2006	304	23,380	3,172
Dec 31, 2007	311	23,708	3,134
Dec 31, 2008	319	23,944	3,102
Dec 31, 2009	319	24,087	3,068
Dec 31, 2010	318	24,228	3,004
Dec 31, 2011	319	24,364	2,937
Dec 31, 2012	321	24,491	2,898
Dec 31, 2013	324	24,607	2,869
Dec 31, 2014	327	24,714	2,844
Dec 31, 2015	331	24,812	2,818
Dec 31, 2016	335	24,904	2,782
Dec 31, 2017	343	24,999	2,744
Dec 31, 2018	353	25,403	2,718
Dec 31, 2019	361	25,966	2,710
Dec 31, 2020	366	26,308	2,711
Dec 31, 2021	372	26,508	2,724
Dec 31, 2022	380	26,771	2,748

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 Lithuania; the database as a whole is cited above.