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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 PeruCongo - KinshasaBarbados
20,96351,181273
21,29152,782274
21,63154,453275
21,98056,170276
22,33957,860278
22,70759,599279
23,05561,474280
23,38063,479281
23,70865,590282
23,94467,800283
24,08770,114285
24,22872,550286
24,36475,138287
24,49177,792288
24,60780,534289
24,71483,368290
24,81286,229291
24,90489,193291
24,99992,209292
25,40395,232293
25,96698,320294
26,308101,499294
26,508104,767295
26,771108,171295

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.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa, Barbados; the database as a whole is cited above.