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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Peru	Burkina Faso	North Macedonia
Dec 31, 1999	20,963	11,075	2,006
Dec 31, 2000	21,291	11,405	2,017
Dec 31, 2001	21,631	11,828	2,026
Dec 31, 2002	21,980	12,380	2,011
Dec 31, 2003	22,339	12,829	2,018
Dec 31, 2004	22,707	13,178	2,024
Dec 31, 2005	23,055	13,540	2,028
Dec 31, 2006	23,380	13,917	2,031
Dec 31, 2007	23,708	14,309	2,035
Dec 31, 2008	23,944	14,722	2,038
Dec 31, 2009	24,087	15,152	2,042
Dec 31, 2010	24,228	15,600	2,046
Dec 31, 2011	24,364	16,064	2,049
Dec 31, 2012	24,491	16,563	2,052
Dec 31, 2013	24,607	17,072	2,055
Dec 31, 2014	24,714	17,575	2,058
Dec 31, 2015	24,812	18,094	2,061
Dec 31, 2016	24,904	18,621	2,063
Dec 31, 2017	24,999	19,157	2,065
Dec 31, 2018	25,403	19,698	2,067
Dec 31, 2019	25,966	20,242	2,068
Dec 31, 2020	26,308	20,788	2,065
Dec 31, 2021	26,508	21,336	2,057
Dec 31, 2022	26,771	21,889	2,048

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.

North Macedonia

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

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