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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Peru	Oman	Finland
Dec 31, 1999	20,963	2,348	5,166
Dec 31, 2000	21,291	2,403	5,176
Dec 31, 2001	21,631	2,457	5,188
Dec 31, 2002	21,980	2,510	5,201
Dec 31, 2003	22,339	2,562	5,213
Dec 31, 2004	22,707	2,613	5,228
Dec 31, 2005	23,055	2,663	5,246
Dec 31, 2006	23,380	2,713	5,266
Dec 31, 2007	23,708	2,764	5,289
Dec 31, 2008	23,944	2,816	5,313
Dec 31, 2009	24,087	2,871	5,339
Dec 31, 2010	24,228	2,928	5,363
Dec 31, 2011	24,364	2,986	5,388
Dec 31, 2012	24,491	3,047	5,414
Dec 31, 2013	24,607	3,110	5,439
Dec 31, 2014	24,714	3,174	5,463
Dec 31, 2015	24,812	3,240	5,481
Dec 31, 2016	24,904	3,307	5,495
Dec 31, 2017	24,999	3,375	5,508
Dec 31, 2018	25,403	3,444	5,516
Dec 31, 2019	25,966	3,512	5,522
Dec 31, 2020	26,308	3,582	5,531
Dec 31, 2021	26,508	3,651	5,542
Dec 31, 2022	26,771	3,696	5,556

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.

Finland

1600–1860: Eloranta, J., Voutilainen, M. and Nummela, I. (2016). “Estimating Finnish Economic Growth Before 1860” mimeo.
1860-1960: R. Hjerppe, The Finnish Economy 1860-1985: Growth and Structural Change, Bank of Finland, Helsinki, 1989, pp. 198-200.

No separate list is published for Oman; the database as a whole is cited above.