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Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Peru	Palestinian Territories
Dec 31, 1999	20,963	2,996
Dec 31, 2000	21,291	3,075
Dec 31, 2001	21,631	3,155
Dec 31, 2002	21,980	3,235
Dec 31, 2003	22,339	3,315
Dec 31, 2004	22,707	3,396
Dec 31, 2005	23,055	3,478
Dec 31, 2006	23,380	3,559
Dec 31, 2007	23,708	3,642
Dec 31, 2008	23,944	3,727
Dec 31, 2009	24,087	3,817
Dec 31, 2010	24,228	3,907
Dec 31, 2011	24,364	3,997
Dec 31, 2012	24,491	4,088
Dec 31, 2013	24,607	4,178
Dec 31, 2014	24,714	4,269
Dec 31, 2015	24,812	4,359
Dec 31, 2016	24,904	4,451
Dec 31, 2017	24,999	4,533
Dec 31, 2018	25,403	4,615
Dec 31, 2019	25,966	4,715
Dec 31, 2020	26,308	4,820
Dec 31, 2021	26,508	4,930
Dec 31, 2022	26,771	5,042

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 Palestinian Territories; the database as a whole is cited above.