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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Peru	Saudi Arabia	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	20,963	19,964	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	21,291	20,426	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	21,631	20,956	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	21,980	21,549	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	22,339	22,189	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	22,707	22,850	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	23,055	23,516	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	23,380	24,178	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	23,708	24,841	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	23,944	25,518	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	24,087	26,227	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	24,228	27,068	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	24,364	27,810	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	24,491	28,516	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	24,607	29,220	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	24,714	29,936	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	24,812	30,646	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	24,904	31,360	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	24,999	32,184	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	25,403	32,869	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	25,966	33,661	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	26,308	34,542	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	26,508	33,651	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	26,771	34,081	108,171

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.

Saudi Arabia

1820, 1870, 1913, 1950: Pamuk, S. (2006), Estimating Economic Growth in the Middle East since 1820, The Journal of Economic History, vol 66, no. 3, pp. 809 - 828

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.