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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	Peru	Albania	Oman	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	20,963	3,085	2,348	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	21,291	3,065	2,403	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	21,631	3,047	2,457	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	21,980	3,038	2,510	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	22,339	3,026	2,562	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	22,707	3,014	2,613	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	23,055	2,998	2,663	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	23,380	2,979	2,713	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	23,708	2,957	2,764	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	23,944	2,934	2,816	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	24,087	2,915	2,871	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	24,228	2,900	2,928	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	24,364	2,892	2,986	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	24,491	2,888	3,047	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	24,607	2,882	3,110	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	24,714	2,876	3,174	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	24,812	2,868	3,240	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	24,904	2,863	3,307	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	24,999	2,861	3,375	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	25,403	2,854	3,444	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	25,966	2,842	3,512	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	26,308	2,825	3,582	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	26,508	2,799	3,651	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	26,771	2,787	3,696	108,171

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.

All data sources

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