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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Peru	Turkmenistan
Dec 31, 1999	20,963	4,324
Dec 31, 2000	21,291	4,385
Dec 31, 2001	21,631	4,444
Dec 31, 2002	21,980	4,502
Dec 31, 2003	22,339	4,556
Dec 31, 2004	22,707	4,608
Dec 31, 2005	23,055	4,664
Dec 31, 2006	23,380	4,719
Dec 31, 2007	23,708	4,773
Dec 31, 2008	23,944	4,828
Dec 31, 2009	24,087	4,884
Dec 31, 2010	24,228	4,940
Dec 31, 2011	24,364	4,996
Dec 31, 2012	24,491	5,053
Dec 31, 2013	24,607	5,110
Dec 31, 2014	24,714	5,169
Dec 31, 2015	24,812	5,227
Dec 31, 2016	24,904	5,287
Dec 31, 2017	24,999	5,346
Dec 31, 2018	25,403	5,405
Dec 31, 2019	25,966	5,464
Dec 31, 2020	26,308	5,522
Dec 31, 2021	26,508	5,579
Dec 31, 2022	26,771	5,657

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 Turkmenistan; the database as a whole is cited above.