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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Peru	Mali
Dec 31, 1999	277	20,963	10,596
Dec 31, 2000	281	21,291	10,833
Dec 31, 2001	285	21,631	10,890
Dec 31, 2002	288	21,980	11,007
Dec 31, 2003	289	22,339	11,307
Dec 31, 2004	293	22,707	11,579
Dec 31, 2005	296	23,055	11,804
Dec 31, 2006	304	23,380	12,043
Dec 31, 2007	311	23,708	12,337
Dec 31, 2008	319	23,944	12,657
Dec 31, 2009	319	24,087	12,986
Dec 31, 2010	318	24,228	13,325
Dec 31, 2011	319	24,364	13,679
Dec 31, 2012	321	24,491	14,040
Dec 31, 2013	324	24,607	14,412
Dec 31, 2014	327	24,714	14,803
Dec 31, 2015	331	24,812	15,210
Dec 31, 2016	335	24,904	15,629
Dec 31, 2017	343	24,999	16,060
Dec 31, 2018	353	25,403	16,507
Dec 31, 2019	361	25,966	16,967
Dec 31, 2020	366	26,308	17,442
Dec 31, 2021	372	26,508	17,930
Dec 31, 2022	380	26,771	18,494

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 Mali; the database as a whole is cited above.