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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date PeruBurkina FasoTrinidad & Tobago
20,96311,0751,301
21,29111,4051,303
21,63111,8281,308
21,98012,3801,314
22,33912,8291,320
22,70713,1781,326
23,05513,5401,332
23,38013,9171,338
23,70814,3091,344
23,94414,7221,352
24,08715,1521,359
24,22815,6001,365
24,36416,0641,372
24,49116,5631,379
24,60717,0721,386
24,71417,5751,392
24,81218,0941,399
24,90418,6211,405
24,99919,1571,411
25,40319,6981,436
25,96620,2421,452
26,30820,7881,448
26,50821,3361,450
26,77121,8891,456

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 Burkina Faso, Trinidad & Tobago; the database as a whole is cited above.