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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Peru	Moldova	Central African Republic
Dec 31, 1999	20,963	4,244	3,889
Dec 31, 2000	21,291	4,199	3,980
Dec 31, 2001	21,631	4,154	4,054
Dec 31, 2002	21,980	4,108	4,128
Dec 31, 2003	22,339	4,059	4,215
Dec 31, 2004	22,707	4,013	4,289
Dec 31, 2005	23,055	3,966	4,363
Dec 31, 2006	23,380	3,919	4,449
Dec 31, 2007	23,708	3,873	4,544
Dec 31, 2008	23,944	3,829	4,641
Dec 31, 2009	24,087	3,788	4,742
Dec 31, 2010	24,228	3,748	4,845
Dec 31, 2011	24,364	3,709	4,950
Dec 31, 2012	24,491	3,671	5,057
Dec 31, 2013	24,607	3,633	5,167
Dec 31, 2014	24,714	3,595	5,278
Dec 31, 2015	24,812	3,558	5,392
Dec 31, 2016	24,904	3,522	5,507
Dec 31, 2017	24,999	3,485	5,625
Dec 31, 2018	25,403	3,448	5,745
Dec 31, 2019	25,966	3,412	5,874
Dec 31, 2020	26,308	3,376	6,025
Dec 31, 2021	26,508	3,339	6,154
Dec 31, 2022	26,771	3,570	6,291

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, Central African Republic; the database as a whole is cited above.