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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Peru	Portugal
Dec 31, 1999	20,963	10,144
Dec 31, 2000	21,291	10,215
Dec 31, 2001	21,631	10,288
Dec 31, 2002	21,980	10,344
Dec 31, 2003	22,339	10,383
Dec 31, 2004	22,707	10,408
Dec 31, 2005	23,055	10,427
Dec 31, 2006	23,380	10,446
Dec 31, 2007	23,708	10,467
Dec 31, 2008	23,944	10,482
Dec 31, 2009	24,087	10,492
Dec 31, 2010	24,228	10,497
Dec 31, 2011	24,364	10,481
Dec 31, 2012	24,491	10,439
Dec 31, 2013	24,607	10,382
Dec 31, 2014	24,714	10,326
Dec 31, 2015	24,812	10,283
Dec 31, 2016	24,904	10,251
Dec 31, 2017	24,999	10,226
Dec 31, 2018	25,403	10,209
Dec 31, 2019	25,966	10,212
Dec 31, 2020	26,308	10,223
Dec 31, 2021	26,508	10,214
Dec 31, 2022	26,771	10,200

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.

Portugal

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
1530–1850: Palma, N., & Reis, J. (2019). From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527–1850. The Journal of Economic History, 79(2), 477-506. doi:10.1017/S0022050719000056
1850-1913: Pedro Lains, "How Far Can We Go? Measuring Portuguese Economic Growth (1850-1913)"
1938-1950: R. Janes Cartado and N.E. Sequeira da Rosa, Series Longas as Contas Nacionais Portuguesas 1958-1985, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon,