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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Peru	Bosnia & Herzegovina
Dec 31, 1999	20,963	3,811
Dec 31, 2000	21,291	3,901
Dec 31, 2001	21,631	3,919
Dec 31, 2002	21,980	3,923
Dec 31, 2003	22,339	3,940
Dec 31, 2004	22,707	3,975
Dec 31, 2005	23,055	3,991
Dec 31, 2006	23,380	3,993
Dec 31, 2007	23,708	3,990
Dec 31, 2008	23,944	3,987
Dec 31, 2009	24,087	3,985
Dec 31, 2010	24,228	3,983
Dec 31, 2011	24,364	3,980
Dec 31, 2012	24,491	3,977
Dec 31, 2013	24,607	3,973
Dec 31, 2014	24,714	3,968
Dec 31, 2015	24,812	3,963
Dec 31, 2016	24,904	3,957
Dec 31, 2017	24,999	3,951
Dec 31, 2018	25,403	3,944
Dec 31, 2019	25,966	3,937
Dec 31, 2020	26,308	3,929
Dec 31, 2021	26,508	3,921
Dec 31, 2022	26,771	3,876

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.

Bosnia & Herzegovina

1952-2008: Milanovic (2011). Estimates provided to the Maddison-Project