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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Peru	Romania	South Korea
Dec 31, 1999	20,963	22,414	46,617
Dec 31, 2000	21,291	22,262	47,008
Dec 31, 2001	21,631	22,106	47,370
Dec 31, 2002	21,980	21,931	47,645
Dec 31, 2003	22,339	21,828	47,892
Dec 31, 2004	22,707	21,704	48,083
Dec 31, 2005	23,055	21,571	48,185
Dec 31, 2006	23,380	21,443	48,438
Dec 31, 2007	23,708	21,129	48,684
Dec 31, 2008	23,944	20,779	49,055
Dec 31, 2009	24,087	20,607	49,308
Dec 31, 2010	24,228	20,485	49,554
Dec 31, 2011	24,364	20,385	49,937
Dec 31, 2012	24,491	20,296	50,200
Dec 31, 2013	24,607	20,224	50,429
Dec 31, 2014	24,714	20,151	50,747
Dec 31, 2015	24,812	20,055	51,015
Dec 31, 2016	24,904	19,938	51,218
Dec 31, 2017	24,999	19,823	51,362
Dec 31, 2018	25,403	19,713	51,585
Dec 31, 2019	25,966	19,622	51,765
Dec 31, 2020	26,308	19,496	51,836
Dec 31, 2021	26,508	19,351	51,745
Dec 31, 2022	26,771	19,266	51,731

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.

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

South Korea

1911-1990: Cha, M.S., Kim, N.N., Park, K.-J., Park, Y. (Eds.) (2020), Historical Statistics of Korea. Studies in Economic History, New York: Springer Publishing
1820, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995