Population, long-run history: compare countries

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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Peru	Yemen
Dec 31, 1999	20,963	16,728
Dec 31, 2000	21,291	17,236
Dec 31, 2001	21,631	17,762
Dec 31, 2002	21,980	18,310
Dec 31, 2003	22,339	18,855
Dec 31, 2004	22,707	19,410
Dec 31, 2005	23,055	20,000
Dec 31, 2006	23,380	20,611
Dec 31, 2007	23,708	21,236
Dec 31, 2008	23,944	21,878
Dec 31, 2009	24,087	22,533
Dec 31, 2010	24,228	23,195
Dec 31, 2011	24,364	23,880
Dec 31, 2012	24,491	24,594
Dec 31, 2013	24,607	25,311
Dec 31, 2014	24,714	26,020
Dec 31, 2015	24,812	26,698
Dec 31, 2016	24,904	27,347
Dec 31, 2017	24,999	27,985
Dec 31, 2018	25,403	28,608
Dec 31, 2019	25,966	29,216
Dec 31, 2020	26,308	29,811
Dec 31, 2021	26,508	30,399
Dec 31, 2022	26,771	31,058

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 Yemen; the database as a whole is cited above.