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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Iceland	Peru	Saudi Arabia
Dec 31, 1999	277	20,963	19,964
Dec 31, 2000	281	21,291	20,426
Dec 31, 2001	285	21,631	20,956
Dec 31, 2002	288	21,980	21,549
Dec 31, 2003	289	22,339	22,189
Dec 31, 2004	293	22,707	22,850
Dec 31, 2005	296	23,055	23,516
Dec 31, 2006	304	23,380	24,178
Dec 31, 2007	311	23,708	24,841
Dec 31, 2008	319	23,944	25,518
Dec 31, 2009	319	24,087	26,227
Dec 31, 2010	318	24,228	27,068
Dec 31, 2011	319	24,364	27,810
Dec 31, 2012	321	24,491	28,516
Dec 31, 2013	324	24,607	29,220
Dec 31, 2014	327	24,714	29,936
Dec 31, 2015	331	24,812	30,646
Dec 31, 2016	335	24,904	31,360
Dec 31, 2017	343	24,999	32,184
Dec 31, 2018	353	25,403	32,869
Dec 31, 2019	361	25,966	33,661
Dec 31, 2020	366	26,308	34,542
Dec 31, 2021	372	26,508	33,651
Dec 31, 2022	380	26,771	34,081

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.

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828