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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Italy	Peru	Ghana
Dec 31, 1999	56,940	20,963	19,327
Dec 31, 2000	56,966	21,291	19,792
Dec 31, 2001	57,004	21,631	20,280
Dec 31, 2002	57,114	21,980	20,806
Dec 31, 2003	57,423	22,339	21,350
Dec 31, 2004	57,852	22,707	21,900
Dec 31, 2005	58,191	23,055	22,469
Dec 31, 2006	58,424	23,380	23,058
Dec 31, 2007	58,781	23,708	23,661
Dec 31, 2008	59,236	23,944	24,270
Dec 31, 2009	59,580	24,087	24,899
Dec 31, 2010	59,844	24,228	25,559
Dec 31, 2011	60,052	24,364	26,244
Dec 31, 2012	60,216	24,491	26,945
Dec 31, 2013	60,337	24,607	27,664
Dec 31, 2014	60,346	24,714	28,405
Dec 31, 2015	60,255	24,812	29,146
Dec 31, 2016	60,140	24,904	29,879
Dec 31, 2017	60,027	24,999	30,617
Dec 31, 2018	59,902	25,403	31,362
Dec 31, 2019	59,754	25,966	32,111
Dec 31, 2020	59,464	26,308	32,864
Dec 31, 2021	59,158	26,508	33,622
Dec 31, 2022	58,966	26,771	34,280

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

Italy

1451-1861: Chilosi, D., & Ciccarelli, C. (2023). Italy in the Great Divergence: What Can We Learn from Engel’s Law (SSRN Scholarly Paper 4514091).
1861-1871 (North Italy): Malanima, P. (2010), “The long decline of a leading economy: GDP in central and northern Italy, 1300–1913” European Review of Economic History 15 (2): 169–219.
1871-1990: Baffigi, A. (2011).”Italian National Accounts, 1861-2011”, Banca d’Italia Economic History Working Papers 18.

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.

Ghana

1885-1950: Broadberry, S., & Gardner, L. (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: Evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, 101424.