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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Peru	Laos	Burkina Faso
Dec 31, 1999	20,963	5,286	11,075
Dec 31, 2000	21,291	5,397	11,405
Dec 31, 2001	21,631	5,499	11,828
Dec 31, 2002	21,980	5,578	12,380
Dec 31, 2003	22,339	5,654	12,829
Dec 31, 2004	22,707	5,746	13,178
Dec 31, 2005	23,055	5,836	13,540
Dec 31, 2006	23,380	5,931	13,917
Dec 31, 2007	23,708	6,035	14,309
Dec 31, 2008	23,944	6,145	14,722
Dec 31, 2009	24,087	6,257	15,152
Dec 31, 2010	24,228	6,368	15,600
Dec 31, 2011	24,364	6,477	16,064
Dec 31, 2012	24,491	6,586	16,563
Dec 31, 2013	24,607	6,695	17,072
Dec 31, 2014	24,714	6,804	17,575
Dec 31, 2015	24,812	6,912	18,094
Dec 31, 2016	24,904	7,019	18,621
Dec 31, 2017	24,999	7,127	19,157
Dec 31, 2018	25,403	7,234	19,698
Dec 31, 2019	25,966	7,343	20,242
Dec 31, 2020	26,308	7,452	20,788
Dec 31, 2021	26,508	7,560	21,336
Dec 31, 2022	26,771	7,666	21,889

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 Laos, Burkina Faso; the database as a whole is cited above.