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Population, long-run history

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023
Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date PeruOmanSenegal
20,9632,34810,070
21,2912,40310,305
21,6312,45710,576
21,9802,51010,864
22,3392,56211,172
22,7072,61311,498
23,0552,66311,839
23,3802,71312,204
23,7082,76412,584
23,9442,81612,978
24,0872,87113,382
24,2282,92813,794
24,3642,98614,226
24,4913,04714,668
24,6073,11015,121
24,7143,17415,589
24,8123,24016,066
24,9043,30716,549
24,9993,37517,044
25,4033,44417,535
25,9663,51218,021
26,3083,58218,518
26,5083,65119,016
26,7713,69619,512

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 Oman, Senegal; the database as a whole is cited above.