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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Mali	Barbados	Peru
Dec 31, 1999	10,596	273	20,963
Dec 31, 2000	10,833	274	21,291
Dec 31, 2001	10,890	275	21,631
Dec 31, 2002	11,007	276	21,980
Dec 31, 2003	11,307	278	22,339
Dec 31, 2004	11,579	279	22,707
Dec 31, 2005	11,804	280	23,055
Dec 31, 2006	12,043	281	23,380
Dec 31, 2007	12,337	282	23,708
Dec 31, 2008	12,657	283	23,944
Dec 31, 2009	12,986	285	24,087
Dec 31, 2010	13,325	286	24,228
Dec 31, 2011	13,679	287	24,364
Dec 31, 2012	14,040	288	24,491
Dec 31, 2013	14,412	289	24,607
Dec 31, 2014	14,803	290	24,714
Dec 31, 2015	15,210	291	24,812
Dec 31, 2016	15,629	291	24,904
Dec 31, 2017	16,060	292	24,999
Dec 31, 2018	16,507	293	25,403
Dec 31, 2019	16,967	294	25,966
Dec 31, 2020	17,442	294	26,308
Dec 31, 2021	17,930	295	26,508
Dec 31, 2022	18,494	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 Mali, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.