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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Lesotho	Congo - Kinshasa	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	1,908	51,181	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	1,916	52,782	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	1,922	54,453	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	1,926	56,170	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	1,926	57,860	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	1,925	59,599	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	1,922	61,474	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	1,919	63,479	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	1,917	65,590	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	1,915	67,800	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	1,916	70,114	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	1,920	72,550	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	1,925	75,138	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	1,930	77,792	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	1,936	80,534	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	1,942	83,368	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	1,948	86,229	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	1,953	89,193	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	1,958	92,209	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	1,962	95,232	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	1,987	98,320	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	2,013	101,499	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	2,037	104,767	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	2,059	108,171	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

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 Lesotho, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.