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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Luxembourg	Barbados	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	433	273	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	438	274	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	443	275	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	448	276	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	454	278	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	460	279	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	467	280	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	474	281	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	482	282	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	491	283	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	500	285	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	509	286	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	521	287	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	533	288	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	547	289	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	560	290	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	571	291	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	586	291	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	599	292	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	610	293	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	623	294	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	633	294	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	643	295	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	651	295	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 Luxembourg, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.