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	Liberia
Dec 31, 1999	20,963	2,741
Dec 31, 2000	21,291	2,847
Dec 31, 2001	21,631	2,917
Dec 31, 2002	21,980	2,978
Dec 31, 2003	22,339	2,983
Dec 31, 2004	22,707	3,005
Dec 31, 2005	23,055	3,138
Dec 31, 2006	23,380	3,311
Dec 31, 2007	23,708	3,469
Dec 31, 2008	23,944	3,603
Dec 31, 2009	24,087	3,708
Dec 31, 2010	24,228	3,817
Dec 31, 2011	24,364	3,984
Dec 31, 2012	24,491	4,141
Dec 31, 2013	24,607	4,244
Dec 31, 2014	24,714	4,348
Dec 31, 2015	24,812	4,460
Dec 31, 2016	24,904	4,576
Dec 31, 2017	24,999	4,689
Dec 31, 2018	25,403	4,810
Dec 31, 2019	25,966	4,904
Dec 31, 2020	26,308	5,005
Dec 31, 2021	26,508	5,109
Dec 31, 2022	26,771	5,216

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.

Liberia

1845-1950: Gardner, L. (2022). Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. Cambridge University Press.