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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Peru	Burkina Faso	Japan
Dec 31, 1999	20,963	11,075	126,512
Dec 31, 2000	21,291	11,405	126,755
Dec 31, 2001	21,631	11,828	127,056
Dec 31, 2002	21,980	12,380	127,324
Dec 31, 2003	22,339	12,829	127,558
Dec 31, 2004	22,707	13,178	127,658
Dec 31, 2005	23,055	13,540	127,679
Dec 31, 2006	23,380	13,917	127,762
Dec 31, 2007	23,708	14,309	127,904
Dec 31, 2008	23,944	14,722	127,969
Dec 31, 2009	24,087	15,152	127,958
Dec 31, 2010	24,228	15,600	127,967
Dec 31, 2011	24,364	16,064	127,755
Dec 31, 2012	24,491	16,563	127,476
Dec 31, 2013	24,607	17,072	127,257
Dec 31, 2014	24,714	17,575	127,186
Dec 31, 2015	24,812	18,094	127,034
Dec 31, 2016	24,904	18,621	126,857
Dec 31, 2017	24,999	19,157	126,631
Dec 31, 2018	25,403	19,698	126,368
Dec 31, 2019	25,966	20,242	126,092
Dec 31, 2020	26,308	20,788	125,634
Dec 31, 2021	26,508	21,336	125,427
Dec 31, 2022	26,771	21,889	124,762

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.

Japan

724-1874: Bassino, Jean-Pascal & Broadberry, Stephen & Fukao, Kyoji & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Takashima, Masanori, (2018). "Japan and the Great Divergence, 730-1874," CEI Working Paper Series 2018-13, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
1874-1940: Fukao, K., Bassino, J.-P., Makino, T., Paprzycki, R., Settsu, T., Takashima, M., and Tokui, J. (2015) Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1874-2008, Tokyo: Maruzen Publishing.

No separate list is published for Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.