Population, long-run history: compare countries

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Peru
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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	Bolivia
Dec 31, 1999	20,963	8,007
Dec 31, 2000	21,291	8,177
Dec 31, 2001	21,631	8,351
Dec 31, 2002	21,980	8,529
Dec 31, 2003	22,339	8,711
Dec 31, 2004	22,707	8,895
Dec 31, 2005	23,055	9,081
Dec 31, 2006	23,380	9,268
Dec 31, 2007	23,708	9,457
Dec 31, 2008	23,944	9,647
Dec 31, 2009	24,087	9,836
Dec 31, 2010	24,228	10,024
Dec 31, 2011	24,364	10,211
Dec 31, 2012	24,491	10,397
Dec 31, 2013	24,607	10,581
Dec 31, 2014	24,714	10,763
Dec 31, 2015	24,812	10,942
Dec 31, 2016	24,904	11,118
Dec 31, 2017	24,999	11,289
Dec 31, 2018	25,403	11,456
Dec 31, 2019	25,966	11,621
Dec 31, 2020	26,308	11,775
Dec 31, 2021	26,508	11,917
Dec 31, 2022	26,771	12,060

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.

Bolivia

1846-1950: Herranz-Loncán, A. and Peres-Cajías (2016). “Bolivian GDP per capita since the mid-nineteenth century” Cliometrica 10: 99-128