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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	Moldova
Dec 31, 1999	20,963	4,244
Dec 31, 2000	21,291	4,199
Dec 31, 2001	21,631	4,154
Dec 31, 2002	21,980	4,108
Dec 31, 2003	22,339	4,059
Dec 31, 2004	22,707	4,013
Dec 31, 2005	23,055	3,966
Dec 31, 2006	23,380	3,919
Dec 31, 2007	23,708	3,873
Dec 31, 2008	23,944	3,829
Dec 31, 2009	24,087	3,788
Dec 31, 2010	24,228	3,748
Dec 31, 2011	24,364	3,709
Dec 31, 2012	24,491	3,671
Dec 31, 2013	24,607	3,633
Dec 31, 2014	24,714	3,595
Dec 31, 2015	24,812	3,558
Dec 31, 2016	24,904	3,522
Dec 31, 2017	24,999	3,485
Dec 31, 2018	25,403	3,448
Dec 31, 2019	25,966	3,412
Dec 31, 2020	26,308	3,376
Dec 31, 2021	26,508	3,339
Dec 31, 2022	26,771	3,570

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 Moldova; the database as a whole is cited above.